CSPAN QA August 22, 2016
You said she had a way of demystifying ideologies. What impact did that have on you . Ms. Isenberg she was a very unusual person. She came to the university of wisconsin to set up the womens History Program. She had to create a space for us in the History Program and she was someone who was very aware not only of gender and class and racial issues and all the things she wrote about, but i think she imparted to me that you also have to understand the politics of academia and the way in which politics in general, we like to believe in america that we are free agents and we are able to sort of ca...