THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Jean Grossholtz Ph.D.
April 17, 1929 – February 9, 2021
“All that I have supported, worked for, believed in has always been possible because of large numbers of people who were willing to go to the streets to stand up for fairness, for equality, for freedom. It is these people who have inspired me, comforted me, and urged me onward. And I have found them all over the world.”
A founding member of Diverse Women for Diversity, an international group of environmental activists, created on the principles of biodiversity and eco-feminism. Joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College in 1961 and founded the women’s studies program.
More About Jean:
- Obituary, The Recorder, Northampton, MA
- Reflecting on the Life of Feminist Scholar Jean Grossholtz, Mount Holyoke College
- Archives
- Jean Grossholtz papers, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
- Papers of professor of Political Science at Mount Holyoke College, University of Washington Libraries
- Jean Grossholtz interviewed by Edie Daly, 2014, Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project records
- Wikipedia page
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 190
