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Mrs. Harris was born in Chicago, United States, on November 23, 1948. She was a daughter of Raymond (a cardiologist and gerontologist) and Sara (an educator and administrator) Harris.
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How does an impressionable 17-year-old girl deal with Fat Phil the Wet Kisser and a revolution at the same time? Ithaca Diaries is a coming of age memoir set at Cornell University in the tumultuous 1960s. The story is told in first person from the point of view of a smart, sassy, funny, scared, sophisticated yet naïve college student who can laugh at herself while she and the world around her are having a nervous breakdown. Based on the author’s diaries and letters, interviews and other primary and secondary accounts of the time, Ithaca Diaries describes collegiate life as protests, politics, and violence increasingly engulf the student, her campus, and her nation. Her irreverent observations serve as a prism for understanding what it was like to live through those tumultuous times.While often laugh-out-loud funny, they provide meaningful insight into the process of political and social change we continue to experience, today. Author James McConkey has called the book "a remarkable achievement." According to historian Carol Kammen, Ithaca Diaries is "earnest, honest and funny. Historically important in addition to being an engaging coming-of-age story."
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Broken Patterns, by award-winning journalist Anita M. Harris, places modern American professional women --and their mothers and grandmothers--in remarkable historical context. Based on interviews with women who entered male-dominated careers in the 1970s and 1980s, the book outlines a "push-pull" pattern of generational and historical development going back to the Colonial period in America. Broken Patterns will be of special interest to women at all career stages because it shows how the experiences of mothers and grandmothers influence career decisions and lives. And it traces the impact of rapid technological and social change on family structures, psyches, and gender roles. Unlike several new books arguing that women's quest for equality has stalled, Broken Patterns takes a hopeful view. It suggests that progress is not linear, nor cyclic, but spiral. "As individuals, as generations and as a society," Harris writes, "we push forward toward a goal, reach an impasse, pull back to retrieve and reintegrate aspects and values of the past in order to move forward, once again." The new edition includes stories of present day college students and recent graduates, a new preface and an afterword assessing how far women have come since Broken Patterns was originally published, in 1995. NPR Reporter and author Margot Adler calls the book "A splendid study of professional women."
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Mrs. Harris was born in Chicago, United States, on November 23, 1948. She was a daughter of Raymond (a cardiologist and gerontologist) and Sara (an educator and administrator) Harris.
Anita M. Harris graduated from Cornell University with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970. In 1975 she received her Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. In 1982 she also attended Harvard University.
Between 1975 and 1976 Mrs. Harris held the position of a public affairs producer at WRFM-Radio. In 1976-1981 she was appointed reporter for MacNeil-Lehrer Report. From 1982 till 1987 Mrs. Harris worked at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, as a lecturer in fiction and creative writing.
During the period of 1987-1996 Anita Harris served as a principal consultant at Harris Media Associates. She joined the staff of Public Health Reports, Boston, MA, as a deputy editor in 1996. Since 1980 she acted as a visiting lecturer at Yale University. From 1984 till 1985 Mrs. Harris worked at Boston University, helding the position of a visiting fellow.
In 1987-1992 Mrs. Harris was appointed assistant professor of communications at Simmons College. Then she worked at Tufts University as a fellow at The Edward R. Murrow Center for International Communication, Etcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1990-1992. Anita Harris joined Babson College, working as a lecturer, in 1993. Later she was a commentator on pubIc radio.
Moreover, Anita Harris served at Museum of Fine Arts as a past director of counciI. She wa a consultant to Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and American Association for the Advancement Science.
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