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April 2005
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The
Radical, The Practical: Women’s Studies in Vermont
When Virginia Woolf suggested in A Room of One’s Own that
women were entitled to earn the same degrees at the same prestigious
institutions of higher learning as men, the idea was as radical
as they come. The year was 1928. Oxford held out until 1960.
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Women of
the Sun
Melissa Chesnut-Tangerman loves harmony. As a member
of Robert DeCormier’s Counterpoint, one of Vermont’s finest
professional vocal ensembles, she performs and records in a wide variety
of styles and languages. Counterpoint’s Christmas Show is an annual
classic, carried nationally on National Public Radio. As a founding member
of the Celestial Sirens, a group that focuses on early music, Chesnut-Tangerman
has performed on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion. In addition,
she teaches choral music at the Long Trail School in Dorset, and coaches
a talented cluster of teens called the Outer Lemmings.
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The
Entrepreneurial Woman
What leads a woman to start her own business? Here in Vermont,
where home-based “cottage” industry has been a tradition,
one might think it’s no big deal. They’re wrong. It
is a big deal.
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Words from
the Silenced
“If it weren’t for photography, I may never have
graduated from high school,” confides photographer Alice
Greenwood, explaining the course of events that led to her upcoming
exhibit “Faces of the Silenced: Portraits and Stories of
Teenage Pregnancy.” Unlike her “more academic” sisters,
Greenwood says she struggled in school until she took an introductory
photography class as a freshman. She credits the discovery of this
pursuit, and her instructor, for motivating her to get her high
school diploma; she then went on to UVM and into her current job
as a substance abuse counselor at the Lund Family Center in Burlington.
She speaks thoughtfully about the avenues that have opened up to
her, and how important it is for one to have options and support
in facing the challenges of life.
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Vermont Woman is a forum for news, issues, features, arts and entertainment from the perspective, experience, and voices of Vermont women. Vermont Woman is a monthly newspaper published in South Burlington, Vermont and is excerpted here on this site. All content ©Copyright 2006, Vermont Woman Publishing
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