Interview with Leslie W. Rabine : The Movement Oral History Project

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Abstract: Stanford alumna Leslie Rabine (1973 PhD French) discusses the factors that led her to participate in activism at Stanford through the Women’s Union and Venceremos and describes teaching the earliest women’s studies courses at Stanford and UC Irvine. Discussing her early life, Rabine describes the impact that her Jewish faith and the civil rights movement had on her later activism. She speaks about her first activist experiences as an undergraduate at Cornell and a formative year spent teaching at the Hampton Institute. Other topics include the gender dynamics of the activist groups in which she was involved, the tensions that she sometimes felt between her academic and activist work, and the “intellectual revolution” that was part of the movement and bore fruit in programs in women’s studies and Black studies. Rabine also describes the Women’s Union’s efforts to support workers at Stanford, including backing a strike of food service workers at Tresidder and circulating questionnaires to women staff on affirmative action issues, and the process of getting hired at UC Irvine and how she established a women’s studies program there.

Type of resource	text
Extent	1 text file
Place	Stanford (Calif.)
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society
Date created	May 14, 2018 - May 4, 2019
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital

Interviewee	Rabine, Leslie W., 1944-
Creator	Rabine, Leslie W., 1944-
Interviewer	Beckman, Caroline
Interviewer	Marine-Street, Natalie
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society

Subject	Rabine, Leslie W., 1944-
Subject	Stanford University. Women's Center
Subject	College Students > Political Activity > United States
Subject	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest Movements
Subject	Anti-war demonstrations
Genre	Interview

Biography	Leslie W. Rabine is a scholar of French literature and African culture, as well as a photographer and graphic designer. Professor Emerita of Women and Gender Studies and French at the University of California, Davis, Rabine was previously a professor of French and associate dean at the University of California Irvine.
Audio	Title Audio
Finding Aid	Title The Movement Oral History Project (SC1432)
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Location	SC1432
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/nt219nx7069

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The Movement oral history project, 2018

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