Radcliffe Quarterly—Summer 2009

Curveball: Toni Stone's Challenge to Baseball and America Deborah Blagg The first woman to play professional baseball on men's teams played in the Negro League with the Kansas City Monarchs and the Indianapolis Clowns. In her biography of Stone, Radcliffe fellow Martha Ackmann RI '09 describes the challenges Stone faced in the Jim Crow South and elsewhere. Why Does the Women's Movement Fight the Same Battles Over and Over Again? Pat Harrison In her search for answers, renowned writer Susan Faludi '81, RI '09 studies documents at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Meet the Author: Elizabeth McCracken RI '09 Julia Hanna Novelist Elizabeth McCracken RI '09 has herself been a serious weight lifter and says it's rather like writing: solitary, effort-filled, and pleasant. Weight-lifting prodigy Christian Wrede is the protagonist of McCracken's novel-in-progress, "Let Your Heart Become Iron." "Let Your Heart Become Iron" Elizabeth McCracken Departments From the Dean Announcements First Murray Professor Studies How Parents and Teachers Collaborate Dean Barbara J. Grosz Receives Allen Newell Award Institute Explorations Daven Presgraves’s Year to Remember Unexplored Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease Bringing Music Back from Oblivion: Laury Gutiérrez and La Donna Musicale Around the Institute News from the Schlesinger Library Lecture Presentations Ruth Bader Ginsburg Opens Gender and the Law Conference Making a Good Choice Can Make All the Difference New Books Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Maria Tatar AM ’79, BI ’78, RI ’07 More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women by Deborah Pickman Clifford ’57 Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ’68, PhD ’75 Pictures at an Exhibition: A Novel by Sara Houghteling ’99 Lark & Termite: A Novel by Jayne Anne Phillips BI ’81 Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing by Steven J. Zipperstein RI ’09 Quick Study Alumnae/i News Names & Faces NEWSmakers

RADCLIFFE QUARTERLY

Editor
Pat Harrison

Associate Editor
Ivelisse Estrada

Book Reviewer
Megan Marshall ’77, RI ’07

Editors Emeritae
Maryel Finney Locke ’48
Aida Kabatznick Press ’48
Diane Sherlock ’78

Design
forminform

Director of Communications
Jenny Corke

Associate Dean for Advancement
Sharyn Bahn

Administrative Dean
Helen Ouellette

Dean
Barbara J. Grosz

Summer 2009

Volume 94/No. 2

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