Phyllis Franklin, professor emeritus of English, speaks on the inception of women's studies programs. She recalls how, during the 1960s and 1970s, people talked about "living authentically," which meant expressing individuality through clothing, for example. She tells three anecdotes about discrimination and women's rights. The first is about reading The Second Sex and other books by Simone de Beauvoir. As a result, she pursued a Ph.D. and became a feminist. The second is about attending the MLA convention in 1970, at which a woman trying to give a report on sex discrimination was shouted down by the men in the audience. Franklin and others decided that day to establish a Women's Caucus for the MLA and to develop women's studies courses. The third anecdote involves the University of Miami women’s tennis team, who in the 1970s were thrown off a tennis court in the middle of a match because some male students wanted to play. The women students came to Franklin in humiliation and outrage, and Franklin telephoned the sports editor at the Miami Herald, who wrote a story on the incident and embarrassed the University so that such discrimination would not happen again.