Inventing a Feminist Institution in Boston: An Informal History of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe College

Inventing a Feminist Institution in Boston: An Informal History of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe College RUTH PERRY Massachusetts Institute of Technology JOYCE ANTLER Brandeis University RENEE FALL Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe College LAURA LEVINE FRADER Northeastern University and Center for European Studies, Harvard University CAROL HURD GREEN Boston College BARBARA HABER Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College ALICE JARDINE Harvard University CHRISTIANE ZEHL ROMERO Tufts University The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe College began as a conversation among friends in 1988. Everything followed from this beginning: as feminist scholars we dreamed up the Consortium because we wanted to work together in an institution of our own. That the