Radcliffe Quarterly—Winter 2006

Making the Most of Your Symptoms Elissa Ely MD ‘88 A conversation with Alice Flaherty ’85, MD ’94, RI ’06 about her work on psychosomatic illness. Women in the War Zone Connie Paige How do women experience war differently from men? Participants in Radcliffe’s fourth annual conference on women, gender, and society took on that question—and more. In the War Zone: How Does Gender Matter? Meet the Author: Geraldine Brooks RI '06 Julia Hanna Brooks reflects on her evolution from journalist to fiction writer and shares an excerpt from her forthcoming novel. "Grenada, 1490" Geraldine Brooks The Sky's Not the Limit: Women in Astronomy Madeline Drexler Five scientific luminaries (plus a sixth via audiotape) gathered before a standing-room-only crowd to recount their experiences breaking into what was once a man’s world. Women Astronomers at Harvard and Radcliffe Departments From the Dean Announcements Homi Bhabha and Theda Skocpol Join Radcliffe Institute as Senior Advisors What Did We Learn From Hurricane Katrina? Institute Explorations Betty Shamieh ’96, RI ’06: Playwright, Actress, Novelist The Hidden History of Black Marriage The Librarian’s Secrets: Knowledge in a Time of War Fellow Update Around the Institute News from the Schlesinger Library The Dean’s Lecture Series Why Dramatize? New Books On Beauty by Zadie Smith RI ‘03 The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood AM ‘62 A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars by Cristina Rathbone RI ‘01 The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales ’79, JD ‘89 Truth, Torture, and the American Way by Jennifer K. Harbury JD ’88, RI ‘04 North of Ithaka by Eleni N. Gage ‘96 Quick Study Alumnae/i News Names & Faces NEWSmakers

RADCLIFFE QUARTERLY

Editor
Pat Harrison

Associate Editor
Ivelisse Estrada

Books Editor
Sage Stossel '93

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

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Director of Communications
Whitney T. Espich

Associate Dean for Advancement and Planning
Tamara Elliott Rogers '74

Dean
Drew Gilpin Faust

Winter 2006

Volume No. 91/ No. 1

The Radcliffe Quarterly (ISSN 0033-7528) is published two times a year by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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