![]() ![]() I went to graduate school so that I could uncover the history of women as thinkers and activists. Feminism made immediate sense to me as a lens through which to understand my world. I trace my intellectual development to my discovery of feminism as a teenager in the 1970s. ![]() Yet given Americans’ tendency to favor personalized over structural analysis, I believe that elucidating the differences between the two is crucial to our future as a nation. Institutions are run by people who have their own complex allegiances, needs and understandings of the problems they confront. My work has a dual focus: analyzing the history of psychologically-based approaches to reform, on one hand, and uncovering the structural, institutional mechanisms that create inequality on the other. ![]()
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