Stories - Life Stories
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Our stories are about how people make sense of their own lives, how they can shed light on our lives, and how we are connected to one another, to history, and to the larger human story.
Discovering feminist literary criticism through a thesis on Faulkner's women
White suffrage movement's complicity in Black disenfranchisement during Jim Crow era
Being a young woman as NASA's first female chief scientist
Male leaders who challenged gender norms and embraced nonviolence
Women researchers' working conditions and relationships with writers at Newsweek
Concern over the lack of women in leadership roles and its root causes
Developing a feminist consciousness through SNCC and personal experience
Writing Emotional Creature and the global repression of girls
Early alignment with the feminist and Civil Rights movements as a college student
Awareness of and connection to the Women's Movement in the 1970s
“When they become human, I think it's very important for us to see that. You can go on doing the good works and have slipped and fallen.”
Joan Baez
Childhood experiences of gender discrimination and their lasting impact
Identifying as a feminist and experiences with sexism and racial bias
Advice on career choices, work/life balance, and self-knowledge
Identifying as a feminist and joining consciousness-raising groups in New Haven
Complexity of female celebrities using sexuality as empowerment
Progress for women in leadership, sports, and the ongoing wage gap
Filing a sex discrimination complaint against Newsweek and its key demands
Growing up with a feminist single mother in the post-1960s women's movement era
Reflections on challenges and limitations of the women's movement
Decision to support Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama in 2008