After a successful 45-year academic career I am now retired, planning to continue my writing career, focusing more widely than the scholarly community. I was a professor of political science and gender studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison for 31 years, then moved to Boston University, where I served as Dean of Arts & Sciences. My published scholarly portfolio includes A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft (Chicago, 1992), The Political Integration of Women (Illinois, 1980), and many book chapters and journal articles. I also published 5 editions of Women in American Society (Mayfield), the only single-author interdisciplinary women's studies textbook in its day. My primary focus now is a book with the working title, The Coming Crisis in American Higher Education: 1636-2036, which investigates the relationship between the history of America higher education and the social, economic, and political development of the United States over that time period. I was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2002.