• Prof. Jean Robinson contrasts her generation with that of her mother and with younger women today, arguing that those women who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s felt that, with struggle, they could question accepted practices and challenge what was considered “normal.”
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Prof. Jean Robinson comments on generational choices and struggles for women

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • Prof. Jean C. Robinson was on the faculty of Indiana University in the Department of Political Science. She directed the Women’s Studies Program and went on to serve in a number of administrative positions within the University. She co-edited the Women in Social Protest series with Prof. Ellen Dwyer and Jocelyn Cohen. Jocelyn Cohen interviewed Jean Robinson in Bloomington on August 1, 2016. This segment is taken from that interview.
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