13 May 1944 Evanston, Illinois -- )[1] is a feminist legal scholar specializing gender studies and issues of the American family and reproductive technologies.
At her retirement she was the Margaret Stiles Halleck Professor of Political Science at Vassar College and lives in Poughkeepsie, NY where she also teaches a writing course to women in the Taconic Correctional Facility.
[2] She said of her teaching career, "I thought about ways to help students to see that the issues we study—sexual discrimination; the nature of gender identity; intimate partner violence; intersections of gender, class, race, and sexual orientation—have endured and changed across the decades at Vassar".
from Wellesley College in 1966, and her Masters and Doctoral degrees in government from Harvard University in 1968 and 1972.
[5] She joined the political science faculty of Vassar College in 1973, where she taught until her retirement.