...education they gave us in no way prepared us to survive as women in a world organized by and for men. From that school, I went on to Radcliffe, congratulating...woman on a lecture platform, or in front of a class, except when a woman graduate student gave a paper on a special topic. The "great men" talked of other...

...to a highly selective, competitive all-girls high school and then to Radcliffe, of which she writes: "I never saw a single woman on a lecture platform, or in front of a class . . . and never again was I to experience, from a teacher, the kind of prodding, the insistence that...

...of conventional gender tyranny. Later, at Radcliffe, there were more lessons to be learned from men. I went on to Radcliffe, congratulating myself that...of Man, the history of Mankind, the future of man. . . . Women students simply were not taken very seriously. Harvard's message to women was an elite...

...already closing in.39 Adrienne Rich, in 1947 entering another of the seven sisters, Radcliffe, reports: "I never saw a single woman on a lecture platform, or in front of a class, except when a woman graduate student gave a paper on a special topic." She and Heilbrun learned a similar...

...education they gave us in no way prepared us to survive as women in a world organized by and for men. From that school, I went on to Radcliffe, congratulating...woman on a lecture platform, or in front of a class, except when a woman graduate student gave a paper on a special topic. The "great men" talked of other...