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Barnard
Women Change America
Alumnae and friends of the College made significant contributions
to the second wave of feminism in America
October
6, 2006—Feminists Who Changed America:1963-1975
(University of Illinois Press, 2006) is the first comprehensive
directory to document many of the founders, leaders, and grassroots
organizers of the second wave women's movement. Not surprisingly,
Barnard women have a significant presence in the publication,
with 48 of the women included listing Barnard in their bios.
See below for the full list.
Among
the directory's more than two thousand entries are 43 alumnae
and five friends of the College. Following graduation, these
empowered women went off and worked as pioneering feminists.
They went beyond the official inequalities in our society,
like suffrage, which feminism's first wave tackled, and fought
for greater rights in areas such as economic equality and
reproductive rights. These Barnard women redefined what feminism
was, paving the way for third wave feminists and inspiring
women rights movements across the globe.
On November
13, the 48 featured women and their guests will celebrate
the release of the book at a gala event in Sulzberger Parlor.
The private reception will be hosted by President Judith Shapiro,
and followed by a dinner at Columbia University's Faculty
House. There also will be a symposium titled Past Victories
and Mistakes, Future Challenges, moderated by Muriel Fox
'78 and including a panel with some of this country's leading
feminists: Heather Booth, Gracia Molina-Pick, Gloria Steinem,
and Catharine Stimpson (the latter chaired the task force
that created the Center for Research on Women at Barnard,
and served as the Center's first acting director).
Janet Jakobsen, the Center's current director, says of the
inclusion of so many Barnard women, "The fact that Barnard
has always helped young women make the most of their abilities
in any field they chose was a contributing factor. It comes
as no surprise that feminism was a field many students chose."
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Barnard
Feminists Who Changed America: 1963-1975
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ALUMNAE
Rebecca
Trachtenberg Alpert '71
Annette Kar Baxter '47
Gertrude Bennett '67
Ellen Birenbaum '73
Elaine Bernstein Bloom '57
Lee Ann MacDonald Bourcier '73
Nancy Duff Campbell '65
Ruth Schwartz Cowan '61
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville '62
Muriel Dimen '64
Rachel Blau DuPlessis '63
Eleanor Thomas Elliott '48
Muriel Fox '48
Ellen Frankfort '58
Estelle Freedman '69
Jane Auerbach Gould '40
Mary Livitsanos Grigoriadis '63
Kirsten Grimstad '68
Elinor Coleman Guggenheimer '33
Judith Adler Hennessee '53
Elizabeth Hall Janeway '35
Lauren Lovett Jardine '67
Karla Berlin Jay '68
Kathryn Kenley Johnson '66
Nan Heffelfinger Johnson '52
Erica Mann Jong '63
Paula Kassell
Linda Kaufman Kerber '60
Barbara Leon '66
Marcia Rubinstein Lieberman '56
Rebecca Levin Lubetkin '60
Susan Maurer '62
Linda McAlister '61
Ruth Nemzoff '62
Abby Pariser '67
Fanette Pollack '74
Susan Levitt Stamberg
Judith Bernstein Stein '65
Martha Tolpin '60
Elizabeth Wade
Sara Beyer Webster '59
Ellen Willis '62
Anne Broderick Zill '63
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OTHER
BARNARD-AFFLIATED WOMEN
Hester
Eisenstein, Co-founder of the Barnard College Women's
Studies program
Tucker
Farley, Taught lesbian studies at Barnard (1975)
Patricia
Graham, Director of Barnard College's Education program
(1965-1974)
Susan
Rennie, Founding member of the Barnard Center for Research
on Women
Catharine
R. Stimpson, Founding member of the Barnard Center for
Research on Women, serving as both chair of the Task
Force that brought the Center into being and as its
first acting director. Initiated the teaching of courses
at Barnard important to the developing field of Women's
Studies, including the first courses in women and literature
and black literature.
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—Julie
Yang'08
posted 10.06.06
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