was selected for the Ford and Exxon Education Foundation’s study of 25 influential female leaders of the women’s movement. Selected works Articles J.F. O'Barr. "The Movement to Establish Women's Studies." Encyclopedia of Social Movements 2 (2004): 415-421. J.F. O'Barr. "My Master List for the Millenium: Commissioned essay." SIGNS: Journal of Women in Society and Culture (special issue) 25.4 (Summer, 2000): 1205-1208. (Reprinted in Judith Howard and Carolyn Allen, eds. Feminisms at a Millenium (Chicago: University of Chicago) 2001, 202-204.) J.F. O'Barr and Kathryn Firmin-Sellers. "African Women in Politics." African Women South of the Sahara all new chapter, revised edition (January, 1995). J.F. O'Barr. "Making the Invisible Visible: African Women in Politics and Policy." African Studies Review 18 (1975): 19-27. J.F. O'Barr. "Report on Changes in Tanzanian Rural Society and Their Relevance for Development Planning." Rural Africana 13 (1971): 43-49. Books J.F. O'Barr. Transforming Knowledge: Public Talks on Women’s Studies 1976-2011. 2013. J.F. O'Barr with Eugenia DeLamotte and Natania Meeker. Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 BCE to Present. New York: Routledge, 1997. J.F. O'Barr, with Nancy Hewitt and Nanvy Rosebaugh, eds.. Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1996. J.F. O'Barr. Feminism in Action: Building Institutions and Community Through Women's Studies. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1994. J.F. O'Barr with Robert H. Yates and Valentin Y. Mudimbe, eds.. Africa and the Disciplines: Contributions of the Study of Africa to the Humanities and Social Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993. J.F. O'Barr. Chapter “Naming, Sharing, Speaking: Teaching in Midlife” pp 221–230 in Phyllis R. Freeman and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Midlife, Routledge, 2000. J.F. O'Barr. Chapter “What Year Is It?" pp 213–222 in The Evolution of Women’s Studies: Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies and Change, Palgrave, 2008. Notes External links Duke Women's Studies Program Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture Guide to the Jean O'Barr Papers, 1974-2008 Founder Of Duke's Women's Studies Department Discusses Evolution Of Women's Scholarship, Interview with Frank Stasio for The State of Things. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society O'Barr's Profile at She Writes Press 1942 births Living people Duke University faculty Women's studies academics Indiana University alumni Northwestern University alumni American women political scientists American political scientists American women academics 21st-century American women