Linda Gordon was born in Chicago, IL in 1940. She grew up with two siblings in a home with very liberal views. She aspired to become a professional ballet dancer but attended Swarthmore College instead (1957-1961). Gordon ...

Helen Klebesadel grew up on a dairy farm in southwestern Wisconsin in the township of Wyoming Valley in a middle class family. Helen performed many farm chores, where she learned much about gender roles. She grew up and ...

Dale Bauer (June 14, 1956) was born in Buffalo, NY, and then moved to California in 1967, where she later attended UC-Irvine and studied American literature (BA., MA., Ph.D.). She has taught at Franklin & Marshall College, ...

Myra Marx Ferree was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey. Her interest in Sociology and Politics began at a young age. She received an undergraduate degree in Political Science at Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in Social ...

Danielle Deveruax-Weber was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is the oldest sibling of four kids and has two children with her husband David Deveruax-Weber. She studied Social Work and Sociology at the University of ...

Laura Flegel is an attorney who has been advocating for civil rights, human rights and economic justice for vulnerable people and communities for over 20 years. Flegel attended the University of Wisconsin - Madison for her ...

Angelika Bammer was born in Germany. She studied at the University of Heidelberg before she earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bammer is the author of Partial Visions: Feminism ...

In her 2015/2016 interviews with Carlos Duarte, Janice Rice discusses the path that led her to her work as an academic librarian at College Library. Janice also talks about her identity as a Ho-Chunk woman, and how it ...

Virginia Sapiro grew up in New York City during the late 1950s to early 1960s, where her father worked on Madison Avenue in an advertising agency and her mother worked as a schoolteacher. In New York, Sapiro attended the ...