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Francesca Cernia Slovin (March 14, 1952-April 2, 2017) taught at The New School from Spring 1996 to Fall 2000, and once again in Fall 2003. Her courses focused on the tension between emotion and reason in philosophy, the importance of imagination in expressing philosophical ideas, philosophers as agents of social change, and misogyny as reflected […]
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Emily James Smith Putnam (née Smith) was a historian, author and educator who served as the first dean of Barnard College in New York City. Born in 1865 in Canandaigua, New York, Putnam graduated from Bryn Mawr College as part of the first class of 1889. She then attended Girton College, Cambridge, for two years […]
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Elsie Clews Parsons, née Elsie Worthington Clews (November 27, 1875, N.Y., N.Y. – December 19, 1941, N.Y., N.Y.), was an American sociologist and anthropologist who produced landmark studies of the Pueblo and other Native American tribes in the Southwest, Mexico, and South America. [1] Born to wealth, her education reflected her family’s position: private schools, […]
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American Photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was best known for her preservation of modern art and her documentation of New York’s ever-changing landscape. After studying at Ohio State University for one year, Abbott moved to New York City in 1918 and began to focus on various forms of art, which included sculpture and drawing. Abbott’s interests […]
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" Rachel Blau DuPlessis and I, old friends from the Women’s Liberation Movement, discovered in the late eighties a shared indignation – and grief. "
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" A widely accepted “picture” equation of the voting calculus, originated by Downs’ is R = PB – C... "
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" In any study of the relations between personality and social classification the queries arise why the social categories are alike so compulsive to the conservative-minded and so precious, why they are given such unfailing loyalty, why such unquestioning devotion? "
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" Towards the end of the reign of Henry the Fourth of France, Marquise de Rambouillet built for herself a new in the Rue St. Thomas du-Lovre, and placed her staircase in a corner of the building instead of in the middle where all the world had supposed a staircase must be. "
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" In- and outsiders conceive of the modern city as a conglomerate of strangers, the individuals being anonymous and traditions and conventions lacking. "