Gender Matters: Women and Yale in its Third Century

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Front Pages

Cover Pages and Table of Contents

Forewords

Richard C. Levin
President of Yale University

Alison F. Richard
Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, Provost Emerita of Yale University

Prefaces

Nancy F. Cott
Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University

Dolores Hayden
Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies, Yale University

Introducing Women to Yale

Shilpa Raval
Assistant Professor of Classics and Research Director of the Women Faculty Forum, Yale University

I. WOMEN AND UNIVERSITIES

One Flower Never Makes a Spring
Johnnetta Cole
President of Bennett College, President Emerita of Spelman College

Women at Yale . . . and Elsewhere
Nan Keohane
President of Duke University

Reflecting on Women, Coeducation, and Cultural Change
Nancy Vickers
President of Bryn Mawr College

II. INVENTION: NEW RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND IMAGINATION: CENTER OF THE ARTS

Making Silence Speak
Elizabeth Alexander
Associate Professor (Adjunct) of African American Studies, Yale University

Searching for Gender: Reminiscences from Yale in the 1970’s
Seyla Benhabib
Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University

Women in and on Film
Sarah Pillsbury
Producer, Sanford Pillsbury Productions

III. LEADERSHIP: REINVENTING THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL

The Challenge of Global Sustainability
Frances Beinecke
Executive Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council

Women as Movement Builders: Building a World Fit For Children
Marian Wright Edelman
Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund

The Globalization of Leadership for Health
Sally Stansfield
Associate Director for Global Health Initiatives for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The Anonymous Past: Women and International Justice
Patricia Wald
American Judicial Representative at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1999-2001)

IV. FOUNDERS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND ACTIVISTS

A Personal Look at Race and Gender
Mishka Brown
Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of Aerolith Incorporated

Policy Research for Social Change
Heidi Hartmann
Founder, President and CEO, Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Entrepreneurship and Gender
Linda Mason
Chair and Cofounder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions

V. REFLECTIONS FROM WOMEN ALUMNAE

Fields of Labor
Linda K. Lorimer
Vice President and Secretary of Yale University

The “Woman Question”
Deborah Rhode
Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford University

Yale’s Contributions: Honorand Remarks at the Law School
Patricia Wald
American Judicial Representative at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1999-2001)

VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS

Gender and Generation Y
Alison Mackenzie
Former Research Director and Program Coordinator of the Women Faculty Forum

Looking Back, Looking Forward: One Hundred Years
Judith Resnik
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale University

About the Contributors
Short Biographies of our Contributors

Conference Pictures
Images from the Gender Matters Conference

Appendix A
Gender Matters: The Conference Program

Appendix B
Council Members of the Women Faculty Forum