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Patricia E. Grieve

Patricia E. Grieve is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She teaches in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Columbia College Core Curriculum.

Patricia E.'s Latest Articles

History Repeatedly Traps Women; Let’s Call It Out

By Patricia E. Grieve & Por Alison Bowen ● Arts & Culture ● March 24, 2015

The idea of women’s inferiority is baked into our cultural history and still spews out at us from the Greek and Roman empires. We see it in the pressure for physical perfection, the abrogation of Title IX rights. Once we see these roots, we might be able to pull them out.