Doctor of Philosophy History, University of California, Berkeley, 1976
Master of Arts History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, 1969
Bachelor of Arts History Honors, University of Rochester, 1967
Junior Year Abroad, Florence, Italy, 1965-1966
Experiment in Living in Mexico, 1963.
She is the editor of The Maimie Papers, a New York Times Notable Book in 1978. The author of The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1982. And the author of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women"s Movement Changed America (revised edition 2006), a Book of the Month and Quality Paperback Selection.
Los Angeles Times Best Books published in 2000.
Finalist for Non-Fiction Award for Bay Area Reviewers Association. She is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California at Davis, where she taught American history, women's history, history and public policy, and immigration studies for over two decades.
The recipient of the University of California in 1983, and many national fellowships, including two from the Rockefeller Foundation, she has lectured all over the world and was a visiting professor at the European Peace University in Austria and Ireland, the Goldman School of Public Policy at University College Berkeley and is currently a visiting professor in the department of history at the University of California.
