On page 2 of the Introduction to Femininity and Domination, Sandy gives a brief but very nice narrative of the first SWIP meeting, which further confirms that it was in 1971.

In case anyone is interested, she also told me on the phone that Faye Sawyier was denied tenure at IIT, had the resources to sue (her husband was an attorney), and did so successfully. 

Tom
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Tom Digby, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Springfield College
Springfield, MA 01109
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On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Mary Briody Mahowald wrote:

I agee with Alison because I was also present at that first SWIP meeting in Chicago, where I first met her and other feminist philosophers.  Like Alison, I remember it also because it is the year that both of our first daughters were newborns.
Mary Mahowald
From: Feminist ethics and social theory [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Alison M Jaggar [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 7:29 PM
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Of course I meant in Chicago, not Toronto! I will be visiting Toronto soon but so far as I know it does not have a State Street. Probably no more maxi-skirts either!
 
Alison M. Jaggar
University of Colorado at Boulder
College Professor of Distinction, Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies
Research Coordinator University of Oslo Center for the Study of Mind in Nature,
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From: Feminist ethics and social theory [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alison M Jaggar [[log in to unmask]]
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Just for the record, the first mid-west SWIP meeting resulted from a call for a meeting of women philosophers in Toronto. The three philosophers who issued the call were Ruth Marcus, Sandy Bartky, and Fay Sawyier, in whose honor this fellowship is named.
 
The histories I have seen place the date of this meeting in 1972, but I believe it was 1971. The reason I think so is that in 1972 I was visibly pregnant but in 1971 I eagerly responded to the call, flying in from Cincinnati and stopping only briefly on State Street to buy a newly fashionable maxi-skirt (to replace my mini skirt). Sandy Bartky was impressed by my style, invited me to spent the night at her house, and the rest is history! In my view, this memory provides overwhelming evidence that mid-west SWIP was founded in 1971, not 1972.
 
In any case, we owe a great deal to Fay Sawyier and the other two woman philosophers who issued the historic call, as well as the several philosopher nuns who attended the meeting. It will be an honor for some young philosopher to hold this fellowship.
 
Alison. 
 
Alison M. Jaggar
University of Colorado at Boulder
College Professor of Distinction, Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies
Research Coordinator University of Oslo Center for the Study of Mind in Nature,
Boulder, CO 80309-0232
303-492-8997 (direct line)
303-492-6132 (dept. office)
303-492-8386 (fax)
 
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Dear Prof. Andrea Veltman,

Would you please post the advertisement below my address to the FEAST listserv?  Thank you.

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