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Alerts and Provocations Moving American Mores: From Women's Education to Torture
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In the spring of 2006,1 was asked to give the convocation address at Bryn Mawr College (BMC), from which I graduated in 1972. Upon accepting the honor, I did what I had been taught to do there-research.
The college provided me with the texts of more than one hundred speeches dating from 1889 when Paul Shorey, a professor of Greek and Latin, addressed the first group of twenty-four graduating students. He told them that BMC was no mere high school for girls but a potent force in the intellectual life of "America."1 Speaking in 1919, Bryn Mawr's own president, M. Carey Thomas argued that the "inseparable corollaries" of "women's rights" were "women suffrage, equal educational …
