Susan Philips recounts her activism during the women's liberation movement and how that experience helped shape her desire to help found the Women's Studies program at the University of Arizona. Philips notes this was a merger of her political…
Ruth Dickstein, University of Arizona University Libraries, discusses the politics becoming a department on campus and the important role that the Woman's Studies Advisory Council (WOSAC) played. She mentions that Women's Studies, as a program…
Susan Aiken, University of Arizona English department, discusses being one of the first individuals to be working in the field of Women's Studies, and how this work came to be seen as "cutting edge'".
Patricia MacCorquodale discusses receiving a grant at the University of Arizona and a dinner that follows. The Vice President of Research commented that at the end of the grant, there would not be a need for Women's Studies. Yet, Myra Dinnerstein…
Video clip of Patricia MacCorquodale recounting the story of her grandmother's voting practices. Her first voting experience was in Montana, where her husband gave her a small slip of paper stating whom she should vote for -- and she did the same…