Background
Yates, Gayle Graham was born on May 6, 1940 in Wayne County, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Robert C. and Gleta (Jones) Graham.
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Harriet Martineau On Women (The Douglass series on women's lives & the meaning of gender)
(Book by Yates, Gayle Graham)
Book by Yates, Gayle Graham
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813510589/?tag=2022091-20
Mississippi Mind: A Personal Cultural History of an American State
(Book by Yates, Gayle Graham)
Book by Yates, Gayle Graham
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0870496433/?tag=2022091-20
What Women Want: The Ideas of the Movement (Harvard Paperbacks)
(Combines personal and social commentary with documentary ...)
Combines personal and social commentary with documentary investigation in an examination of the literatures, issues, purposes, and leaders of contemporary women's groups, focusing on the central feminist, liberationist, and androgynous attitudes.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674950798/?tag=2022091-20
Life and Death in a Small Southern Town: Memories of Shubuta, Mississippi
( Gayle Graham Yates's hometown sits on the banks of the ...)
Gayle Graham Yates's hometown sits on the banks of the Chickasawhay River, boasting the live oak, dogwood, and magnolia trees found throughout southern Mississippi. Like any place, Shubuta (population 650) is inhabited by good people and bad, by virtue and vice. Both a literary memoir and a cultural history, this book chronicles Yates's return to the town in which she first knew goodness and came to recognize immorality. Blending folklore and personal impressions with the words of Shubuta people telling their own stories, Yates offers a rich narrative of the town from its Choctaw prehistory through the tremendous economic, political, racial, and social changes that led to its present. The author's pilgrimage leads us to the Hanging Bridge, where some black Shubutans were lynched; to a bank that did not fail during the Great Depression; and to the office of the doctor who tends broken hearts as well as broken arms. Yates takes us to Shubuta's most beautiful gardens and ugliest vacant lots, to all the stores in town, to the new post office, and to the town hall. In the process, we learn how Shubuta evolved from a racially stratified town to one in which the descendants of slaves are now political leaders, librarians, business owners, and police officials. Yates also tells of her own moral journey from judgmental young activist to middle-aged scholar mellowed by experience, travel, and reading who sees her home with newfound compassion. Ultimately, she shows us Small Town southern America: a strong, frail, fascinating, and complex human community.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807129372/?tag=2022091-20
Life and Death in a Small Southern Town: Memories of Shubuta, Mississippi by Yates, Gayle Graham (2004) Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01182KGF2/?tag=2022091-20
Gayle Graham Yates
Edit Profilewriter American and women's studies educator
Gayle Graham Yates, American and women"s studies educator, writer Member Faculty English department Boston University, 1964-1967; Member Minnesota Governor"s Advisory Committee on Families, 1980-1982.; Member American Studies Association (chairman women"s committee 1981-1983), Women Historians of Midwest, National Women"s Studies Association.
Education
Bachelor, Millsaps College, 1961. Master of Arts in Teaching, Vanderbilt University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1973.
Career
Member faculty English department Boston University, 1964—1967. Visiting scholar Cambridge University, 1973—1974, 0178, 1992. Chairman women's studies University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1976—1981, associate professor women's studies and American studies, 1981—1996, professor American studies, 1996—2005, professor emeritus, since 2005.
Visiting professor Amerika-Institute University Munchen, 1989, 1992—1993, University Amsterdam, 1995, Humboldt University Berlin, 1997. Founding member Big Ten Panel Women's Studies.
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What Women Want: The Ideas of the Movement (Harvard Paperbacks)
(Combines personal and social commentary with documentary ...)
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Life and Death in a Small Southern Town: Memories of Shubuta, Mississippi
( Gayle Graham Yates's hometown sits on the banks of the ...)
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Harriet Martineau On Women (The Douglass series on women's lives & the meaning of gender)
(Book by Yates, Gayle Graham)
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Mississippi Mind: A Personal Cultural History of an American State
(Book by Yates, Gayle Graham)
- What women want : the ideas of the movement
- Life and Death in a Small Southern Town: Memories of Shubuta, Mississippi by Yates, Gayle Graham (2004) Paperback
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What Women Want: The Ideas of the Movement (Harvard Paperbacks)
Membership
Member Faculty English department Boston University, 1964-1967. Member Minnesota Governor"s Advisory Committee on Families, 1980-1982. Member American Studies Association (chairman women"s committee 1981-1983), Women Historians of Midwest, National Women"s Studies Association.
Connections
Married Herschel Wilson Yates, Junior, July 21, 1961. Children: Natasha, Stiles.
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1973
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