Gail Thain Parker

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Parker, Gail Thain, ed. (1972). The Oven Birds: American Women on Womanhood, 1820-1920. Garden City: Anchor Books.
  • ——— Mind Cure In New England: From The Civil War To World War I (Hanover, N.H., University Press of New England, 1973)
  • ——— with Gene R Hawes, College On Your Own: How You Can Get a College Education at Home (New York: Bantam Books, 1978 ISBN   0553010921).
  • ——— The Writing on The Wall: Inside Higher Education In America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979 ISBN   0671229222).
  • Articles

    • "Jonathan Edwards and melancholy". The New England Quarterly (1968): 193-212.
    • "Sex, sentiment, and Oliver Wendell Holmes". Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1.1 (1972): 47-63.
    • "How to Win Friends and Influence People: Dale Carnegie and the Problem of Sincerity". American Quarterly 29, no. 5 (1977): 506–18. doi : 10.2307/2712571.
    • "Mary Baker Eddy and Sentimental Womanhood". The New England Quarterly 43: 1 (Mar. 1970)
    • "While Alma Mater Burns", The Atlantic Monthly , 238 (3), September 1976

    Policy documents

    All available online at Bennington College Digital Repository.

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    2. Heise, Kenan (May 7, 1992). "U. of C. Business Lecturer, Author Richard J. Thain". Chicago Tribune.
    3. WorldCat "Most widely held works by Richard J Thain.
    4. 1 2 Christy (1980), p. 26.
    5. 1 2 3 Bennington_College_Archive (2020).
    6. Buell, Lawrence. The New England Quarterly . 46.4 (1973): 630–31. doi : 10.2307/364821.
    7. Baxter, Annette K., "Review of Women’s Studies and American Studies: The Uses of the Interdisciplinary", American Quarterly 26.4 (1974): 433–39. doi : 10.2307/2711657.
    8. 1 2 3 Lescaze (1979).
    9. Meehan (1969).
    10. SteinerZannoni (1995), p. 92.
    11. Bennington College (1973).
    12. Rush Welter, An Open Letter to the Trustees of Bennington College, October 11, 1973
    13. Parker, Gail Thain (1973), An Open Letter Concerning Affirmative Action, Bennington College, hdl:11209/9869
    14. Bennington College (1975).
    15. Nemy, Enid (November 27, 1975), "President of Bennington Gets No-confidence Vote", The New York Times , p. 20
    16. Weisman, Richard S. (February 2, 1976), "Bennington Board Replaces Parker With a Trustee", Harvard Crimson
    17. Robert (1976).
    18. McVity (1980).
    19. Ephron (1976).
    20. Klemesrud, Judy (April 4, 1978), "A Maverick's Guide to Self-education", The New York Times
    21. Cook, Joan (October 20, 1976), "Ex-Bennington Chief Joins Drew U; Which Has 'Reflective' Atmosphere", The New York Times
    22. 1 2 Christy (1980).
    23. Keller (1978), p. 38.
    24. Ephron (1976), p. 57.
    25. Ephron (1976), p. 58.
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    29. Featherstone, Joseph (February 3, 1980), "Thinking about Learning", The New York Times Book Review, p. 11
    Gail Thain Parker
    6th president of Bennington College
    In office
    1971–1976