Forty Years: The History of Women at Bowdoin

A Class Project of GWS 280 - Fall 2011

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Social Life and Sexuality Focus Group

This discussion brought together three women of the first two classes of coeducation at Bowdoin. These women, Elissa [Liddy] Berry (’75), Barney Geller (’75), and Anne Ireland (’76), describe their social experience during their four years at Bowdoin. These women did experience hostility from some students on campus due to their gender, but the stories they share for the most part express a strong sense of belonging. Listen to the audio to hear their experiences with fraternities, sexual harassment and simply what it was like to be a woman at Bowdoin in the 70s.

Audio: click title below to begin listening

https://learn.bowdoin.edu/gender-women/audio/sexuality-focus-group.mp3
Social Life and Sexuality Focus Group
Social Life and Sexuality Focus Group
https://learn.bowdoin.edu/gender-women/audio/sexuality-focus-group-1.mp4

Filed Under: Focus Group, Focus Group, Process, Social Life & Fraternities Tagged With: Anne Ireland, Barney Geller, Elissa Berry, Focus Group, Liddy Berry, Sexuality, Social Life

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