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Collection Overview

Administrative Information

Biographical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Elizabeth Dodson Gray Papers, 1970s-2008

Finding Aid

2010

Collection Overview

Creator: Gray, Elizabeth Dodson, 1929-
Title: Elizabeth Dodson Gray Papers
Dates: 1970s-2008
Abstract: Theologian; Writer. Papers contain lecture notes, writings, and articles and clippings about women and women's issues. [NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact the Sophia Smith Collection if you would like one sent to you.]
Extent: 5 boxes(4.5 linear ft.)
Language: English
Identification: MS 648

Administrative Information

The Elizabeth Dodson Gray Papers were donated to the Sophia Smith Collection by Elizabeth Dodson Gray beginning in 2008.

Associated material can be found in the Theological Opportunities Program Records.

Accessioned by Burd Schlessinger, 2009

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Elizabeth Dodson Gray Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

This collection has not been fully processed and therefore may be difficult to use.

Collection is stored offsite; researchers must give 48 hours advance notice.

The material in this collection may be protected by copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights for permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Permission must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

Periodic additions to collection are expected and may not be reflected in this record.

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Biographical Note

Elizabeth Dodson Gray graduated from Smith College in 1951, and earned her BDiv. from Yale Divinity School in 1954. In 1957, she married fellow Yale classmate, David Gray, with whom she has two children, Hunter and Lisa. From 1957 to 1972, the couple worked together in Epicopal parish ministsry, and during the 1970s and 1980s, they taught together at MIT's Sloan School of Management, at Williams College, and at Boston College; Elzabeth D. Gray also taught at the Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire. In the early 1970s, Gray "worked out for herself a feminist critique of our male-dominated culture," and since 1978 she has served as director of the Theological Opportunities Program (TOPS) at Harvard Divinity School, which sponsors Thursday morning lectures on a variety of topics having to do with patriarchy, ecofeminism, women's interpretation of religious matters, and the like. In 2000, Gray received Yale University's Distinguished Alumni Award.

[Biographical information was taken from IWWG and Yale Divinity School web sites]

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Elizabeth Dodson Gray Papers contain lecture notes; books by Gray, and books and publications containing writings by her; and articles and clippings about women and women's issues.

[NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact the Sophia Smith Collection if you would like one sent to you.]

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