Lindsey S. Tucker, Professor of English, recalls being a working girl in New York, where as as an editor at a publishing firm, women were paid much less than men. She wanted to teach women's studies, but such did not exist in the 1960s. Tucker describes how sociologists began to study women as a group, trying to move beyond the simple formulation of "women as victims." She also recalls how black women authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison brought new issues to the table, so that it became necessary to learn how to read women's literature in new ways.