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FEATURES |
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By Megan Mcnamer The legacy of UM's most famous alumna, Jeannette Rankin. A PIONEERING SPIRIT By Janelle Leader Lamb She set up child health clinics in Montana, she treated malnutrition in India and, a decade before she died, Jessie Bierman endowed the Flathead Lake Biological Station. A WOMAN FOR ALL SEASONS By Constance Poten Co-founder of the Women's Studies Program, Professor Maxine Van de Wetering helped seven students become Rhodes Scholars. And she electrifies an audience when she speaks. THE BIRTH OF WOMEN'S STUDIES By Joyce Brusin From the drawing board into the fire: the evolution of UM's Women's Studies Program. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN By Kim Anderson How to be a feminist? Just ask the crew at UM's Women's Center. MOVERS AND SHAKERS By Patrick Hutchins A rancher, a judge, a jazz singer, a producer and a scientist: five generations of UM alumna. WOMEN OF THE MILLENNIUM By Beth Judy Four UM students - ranging from artist to lawyer - get ready to set the world on fire. BOOKS By Susanna Sonnenberg Poems about immigrant women, an epistolary novel about Yellowstone National Park and a novel about a woman spying on her life in a western university town much like Missoula. Cover: Self portrait in oil pastels by Amie Thurber. All photos by Todd Goodrich, except as noted. |