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38-471: The institute comprises three programs: The Radcliffe Institute often hosts public events, many of which can be watched online. It is a member of the Some Institutes for Advanced Study consortium. Prof. Tomiko Brown-Nagin is the institute's current dean. The Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study was founded in 1961 by the then-president of Radcliffe College, Mary Bunting , who sought to stem

76-474: A comic strip which was the first appearance of Kewpie , created by Rose O'Neill . Bok introduced business practices of low subscription rates and inclusion of advertising to offset costs. Some argue that women's magazines, like the Ladies' Home Journal , pioneered the strategies " magazine revolution ". Edward Bok authored more than twenty articles opposed to women's suffrage which threatened his "vision of

114-417: A description of the item or collection and provides other important information such as offsite location or access restrictions. Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program

152-598: A growing number of educated women were ready to resume intellectual or artistic work after raising families. From 1960 to 2000, more than 1,300 scholars, scientists, artists, writers, and musicians have been named fellows. The Boston Globe Magazine called the Bunting Institute "America's Think Tank for Women", and the Chronicle of Higher Education described the institute as a place where "lives get turned around, books get written, and discoveries are made, all

190-651: A monthly with the July issue, stating it was "transitioning Ladies' Home Journal to a special interest publication". It became available quarterly on newsstands only, though its website remained in operation. The last issue was published in 2016. Ladies' Home Journal was one of the Seven Sisters . The name was derived from the Greek myth of the "seven sisters", also known as the Pleiades . The Ladies' Home Journal

228-545: A new member: This article about an organization in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ladies%27 Home Journal Ladies' Home Journal was an American magazine that ran until 2016 and was last published by the Meredith Corporation . It was first published on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of

266-462: A part-time basis. The current institute came into being by the agreement of October 1, 1999, under which Radcliffe College merged with Harvard University. Long before this date, the focus of Radcliffe had already begun to shift: undergraduate women had attended classes with Harvard men since 1943, received Harvard degrees signed by both Harvard and Radcliffe presidents since 1963, and lived in integrated dormitories with Harvard men since 1971. In 2001,

304-437: A readership of 3.2 million in 2016. Also in 2016, Meredith partnered with Grand Editorial to produce Ladies' Home Journal . Only one issue was created. The American cooking teacher Sarah Tyson Rorer served as LHJ 's first food editor from 1897 to 1911, when she moved to Good Housekeeping . In 1936, Mary Cookman , wife of New York Post editor Joseph Cookman , began working at the Ladies' Home Journal . In time, she

342-467: A subscribed circulation of more than one million copies by 1903, the first American magazine to do so. Bok served until 1919. The features he introduced was the "Ruth Ashmore advice column", written by Isabel Mallon . In the 20th century, the magazine published the work of muckrakers and social reformers such as Jane Addams . In 1901, it published two articles about the early architectural designs of Frank Lloyd Wright . The December 1909 issue included

380-778: A third of the advertising in all women's magazines. By 1929, it had nearly twice as much advertising as any other publication except for the Saturday Evening Post , which was also published by the Curtis family. The Ladies' Home Journal was sold to 2 million subscribers in the mid-1920s, grew a little during the depression years, and surged again during post-World War II. In 1955, each issue sold 4.6 million copies, and there were approximately 11 million readers. The Journal , along with its major rivals, Better Homes and Gardens , Family Circle , Good Housekeeping , McCall's , Redbook and Woman's Day , were known as

418-412: Is no greater enemy of woman than woman herself." During World War II , the Ladies' Home Journal was a venue for the government to place articles intended for homemakers. The annual subscription price paid for the production of the magazine and its mailing. The profits came from heavy advertising, pitched to families with above-average incomes of $ 1,000 to $ 3,000 in 1900. In the 1910s, it carried about

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456-525: The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences , served as interim dean after Faust's departure and was named dean on April 28, 2008; she stepped down in June 2011. After serving as interim dean from 2011 to 2012, Lizabeth Cohen became dean. A historian, Cohen stepped down on June 30, 2018, to return to research, writing, and teaching. The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on

494-522: The education of women and girls are manuscript holdings. Ordinary lives of women and families and the struggles and triumphs of women of accomplishment are richly documented in diaries and other personal records. Many collections, such as the papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Pauli Murray , and the records of the National Organization for Women , feature political, organizational, and economic questions. In addition to these collections,

532-541: The 20th century in the United States. In 1891, it was published in Philadelphia by the Curtis Publishing Company . In 1903, it was the first American magazine to reach one million subscribers. In the late 20th century, the rise of television caused sales of the magazine to decline as the publishing company struggled. On April 24, 2014, Meredith announced it would stop publishing the magazine as

570-655: The History of Women in America exists to document women's lives and endeavors. Its wealth of resources reveals the wide range of women's activities at home in the United States and abroad from the early 19th century to the present day. The library's holdings include manuscripts; books and periodicals; and photographic and audiovisual material. There are more than 2,500 unique manuscript collections from individuals, families, and organizations. Women's rights movements past and present, feminism, health and sexuality, social reform, and

608-770: The Radcliffe Fellowship Program to draw together scholars to focus on particular themes. Previous cluster topics include unconscious prejudice and the law, immigration, randomness and computation, and cosmology and theoretical astrophysics. The program is currently run out of Byerly Hall, one of the historic buildings in Radcliffe Yard. 42°22′33″N 71°07′20″W  /  42.37581°N 71.12233°W  / 42.37581; -71.12233 Some Institutes for Advanced Study The Some Institutes for Advanced Study ( SIAS ) consortium organizes ten "institutes for advanced study" founded on

646-730: The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program, both of which date back to Radcliffe College days, are among the institute's best-known features. As the college became an institute, Mary Maples Dunn served as acting president of Radcliffe College and acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute. On January 1, 2001, Drew Gilpin Faust became the institute's first permanent dean; she stepped down in July 2007 to become president of Harvard University . Barbara J. Grosz , Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at

684-614: The Seven Sisters, after the women's colleges in the Northeast. For decades, the Journal had the most circulation of the Seven Sisters, but it fell behind McCall's in 1961. In 1968, its circulation was 6.8 million, compared to McCall's 8.5 million. That year, Curtis Publishing sold the Ladies' Home Journal and the magazine The American Home to Downe Communications for $ 5.4 million in stock. Between 1969 and 1974, Downe

722-401: The arts and in music; women and family; feminist and anti-feminist theory; and lesbian writings. Hundreds of periodical titles, including popular magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal , Ebony , and Seventeen , highlight domestic concerns, leisure pursuits, etiquette, fashion, and food. Photographic and Audiovisual Material: More than 90,000 photographs, ranging from casual snapshots to

760-442: The essential gifts of an Institute fellowship: time, financial support, a room of one's own, membership in a vital community of women, and access to all Radcliffe and Harvard resources. Once Bunting's idea was made public and the announcement appeared on the front page of The New York Times in the fall of 1960, more than 2,000 women inquired about the "experiment". The outpouring of interest confirmed President Bunting's hunch—that

798-502: The exodus of highly trained and educated women from promising careers. The institute provided stipends as well as access to all of the resources of Harvard University to take up their chosen creative intellectual studies. The initial funding for the institute came from the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. The institute was renamed the Bunting Institute in 1978; its grants expanded to support women wishing to pursue advanced degrees on

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836-562: The first professorship at the institute was established with the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professorship at Radcliffe. The professorship was endowed by the Pforzheimer family, who also endowed the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Directorship and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Student Fellowships at the institute's Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, which, with

874-493: The first revamped issue. The Journal announced that portions of its editorial content would be crowdsourced from readers, who would be fairly compensated for their work. The magazine made the decision to end monthly publication and relaunch it quarterly. At the same time, the headquarters of the magazine moved from New York City to Des Moines, Iowa . Meredith offered its subscribers the chance to transfer their subscriptions to Meredith's sister publications. The magazine had

912-579: The globe as a result of American women's extensive travel and foreign residence. Some examples are letters of early missionaries in China, activists' accounts of the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice , and the speeches and writings of Shirley Graham Du Bois . Detailed records for the library's manuscript collections as well as books and periodicals can be found in HOLLIS. The catalog record gives

950-400: The last three words in 1886. Knapp was succeeded by Edward William Bok as LHJ editor in late 1889. Knapp remained involved with the magazine's management, and she also wrote a column for each issue. In 1892, LHJ became the first magazine to refuse patent medicine advertisements. In 1896, Bok became Louisa Knapp's son-in-law when he married her daughter, Mary Louise Curtis . LHJ reached

988-411: The library also houses the personal papers of Susan B. Anthony , Amelia Earhart , Betty Friedan , Adrienne Rich , and many others. Books and Periodicals: More than 80,000 printed volumes include scholarly monographs as well as popular works. These cover topics including women's rights; women and work; women's health; women of color; comparative material about women in other cultures; works on women in

1026-410: The papers of several famous chefs and food writers, such as M. F. K. Fisher , Julia Child , and Elizabeth David . The Radcliffe College Archives, 1879–1999—including papers of college officers, students, and alumnae—record the history of women in higher education. While its focus for collecting is American women , the library has an abundance of print and manuscript materials bearing on issues around

1064-406: The promotion of learning, but its scale was smaller and it did not offer formal instruction. Nor did it have large laboratories. It was to be a place for the most highly specialised research, yet provide an atmosphere open to intellectual exchange across all disciplinary boundaries". The SIAS consortium has stated several conditions any candidate institution should fulfill in order to be accepted as

1102-420: The result of time spent among intellectual peers." Including the 2017–2018 academic year, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program has hosted around 900 women and men of exceptional promise working on projects across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. For the 2017–2018 fellowship class, the acceptance rate was only 4 percent. Research clusters at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study use

1140-576: The same principles as the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . The members are: SIAS members were founded explicitly to follow the Princeton model (with certain variations—not all maintain a permanent faculty, for instance), and place an emphasis on granting one-year fellowships. According to Bjorn Wittrock (2003), the Princeton institute model was "like a traditional university…devoted to

1178-402: The solutions offered in counseling, and the outcome is published. It was written for 30 years, starting in 1953, by Dorothy D. MacKaye under the name of Dorothy Cameron Disney. MacKaye co-founded this column with Paul Popenoe , a founding practitioner of marriage counseling in the U.S. The two jointly wrote a book of the same title in 1960. Both the book and the column drew their material from

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1216-478: The woman at home, living the simple life". He opposed the concept of women working outside the home, women's clubs , and education for women. He wrote that feminism would lead women to divorce, ill health, and even death. Bok solicited articles against women's rights from former presidents Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt (though Roosevelt would later become a supporter of women's suffrage). Bok viewed suffragists as traitors to their sex, saying that "there

1254-441: The works of professional photographers, create an unparalleled visual record of private and public life. Audiotapes, videotapes and oral history tapes, and transcripts add the soundtrack to the story of women's lives. The library has two distinguished special collections. A culinary collection of more than 15,000 books—spanning five centuries and global cuisines —is one of the world's most significant. This collection also includes

1292-407: Was acquired by Charter Company . In 1982, it sold the magazine to Family Media Inc., publishers of Health magazine. In March 1970, feminists including Susan Brownmiller held an 11-hour sit-in at the Ladies' Home Journal ' s office, with some of them sitting on the desk of editor John Mack Carter and asking him to resign and be replaced by a woman editor. Carter declined to resign; he

1330-452: Was allowed to produce a section of the magazine that August. Other activists continued the protests. In 1986, the Meredith Corporation acquired the magazine from Family Media for $ 96 million. In 1998, the Journal 's circulation had dropped to 4.5 million. The magazine debuted an extensive visual and editorial redesign in its March 2012 issue. Photographer Brigitte Lacombe was hired to shoot cover photos, with Kate Winslet appearing on

1368-471: Was developed from a double-page supplement in the American newspaper Tribune and Farmer titled Women at Home . Women at Home was written by Louisa Knapp Curtis , wife of the paper's publisher, Cyrus H. K. Curtis . After a year, it became an independent publication, with Knapp as editor for the first six years. Its original name was The Ladies' Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper , but Knapp dropped

1406-556: Was founded at Radcliffe College in 1961 as the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. In 1978, the institute was renamed the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute to honor Radcliffe College President Mary Bunting , whose initiative it was to create a postgraduate study center for female scholars and artists. Concerned about the prevailing "climate of unexpectation" for women at that time, Bunting deliberately sought to reverse that negative attitude by establishing

1444-401: Was named its Executive Editor, and she remained with LHJ until 1963. In 1946, the Journal adopted the slogan "Never underestimate the power of a woman", which it continues to use today. The magazine's trademark feature is "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" In this popular column, each person of a couple in a troubled marriage explains their view of the problem, a marriage counselor explains

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