Gayle Graham Yates

Yates was born on May 6, 1940, on a farm in Shubuta, Mississippi to Gleta and Robert Graham.{{Cite web |date=May 7, 2023 |title=Obituary for Gayle Graham Yates |url=https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000457012/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Star Tribune}} She had an older brother. Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, her mother was a teacher and her father a farmer.{{Cite journal |last1=Yates |first1=Gayle Graham |last2=Chambers |first2=Clarke A. |date=1994-11-22 |title=Interview with Gayle Graham Yates |url=https://hdl.handle.net/11299/50863 |journal=University Digital Conservancy |hdl=11299/50863 |language=en-US}} She earned a bachelor's degree from Millsaps College and a M.A. at Vanderbilt University. Yates completed studies at the Boston University School of Theology. Her first daughter was born in 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Yates and her husband Wilson moved to New Brighton, Minnesota where he worked at the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (United). Her second child was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in the fall of 1967. She earned a Ph.D. in American studies at the University of Minnesota.

For two years, Yates worked half time at both her alma mater and United. She later worked full time at the University of Minnesota, helping to create its women studies program. She served as its first full time faculty director and later chair.{{Cite journal |last=Knatterud |first=Mary |date=2024-02-20 |title=One Woman's Studies: The Far-Reaching Impact of Gayle Graham Yates, PhD (1940-2023) |url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/collections/fd90a8cf-f34b-475f-bcf2-7e9e3c261572 |journal=Journal of Opinions, Ideas & Essays |language=en |publisher=University of Minnesota Retirees Association |volume=7}} Yates was a feminist scholar. In 1982, Yates began teaching American studies until she retired.

Yates died on April 27, 2023, at her home in Minneapolis.

• {{Cite book |last=Yates |first=Gayle Graham |title=What Women Want: The Ideas of the Movement |date=1975 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-95077-1 |language=en}}Reviews of What Women Want:
• {{Cite journal |last=Newmark |first=Norma L. |date=January 1978 |title=Review |journal=The Family Coordinator |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=95 |doi=10.2307/582747 |jstor=582747}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Epstein |first=Cynthia Fuchs |author-link=Cynthia Fuchs Epstein |date=1977 |title=Review |journal=Political Science Quarterly |volume=92 |issue=2 |pages=346 |doi=10.2307/2148383 |issn=0032-3195 |jstor=2148383}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Scanzoni |first=Letha|author-link=Letha Dawson Scanzoni |date=1976 |title=Review |journal=Social Science Quarterly |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=691–692 |issn=0038-4941 |jstor=42859675}}
• {{Cite journal |last=O'Neill |first=William L.|author-link=William L. O'Neill |date=1976 |title=Review |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=471–472 |doi=10.2307/1899740 |issn=0021-8723 |jstor=1899740}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Huganir |first=George H. |date=1977 |title=Review |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |volume=429 |pages=187–188 |issn=0002-7162 |jstor=1041623}}
• {{Cite book |last=Martineau |first=Harriet |author-link=Harriet Martineau |title=Harriet Martineau on Women |date=1985 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-1057-6 |editor-last=Yates |editor-first=Gayle Grahm |language=en}}Review of Harriet Martineau on Women:
• {{Cite journal |last=Sheets |first=Robin |date=1986 |title=Review of Dorothy Wordsworth; Frances Trollope; Harriet Martineau on Women; Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection |journal=Victorian Studies |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=145–146 |issn=0042-5222 |jstor=3828215}}
• {{Cite book |last=Yates |first=Gayle Graham |title=Mississippi Mind: A Personal Cultural History of an American State |date=1990 |publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press |isbn=978-0-87049-643-1 |language=en}}Reviews of Mississippi Mind:
• {{Cite journal |last=Sansing |first=David G.|author-link=David Sansing |date=1991 |title=Review |journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly |volume=75 |issue=4 |pages=857–858 |issn=0016-8297 |jstor=40582451}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Nybakken |first=Elizabeth I. |date=1992 |title=Review |journal=The Journal of Southern History |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=394–395 |doi=10.2307/2210921 |issn=0022-4642 |jstor=2210921}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Prince |first=Vinton M. |date=1991 |title=Review of Delta Time: A Journey Through Mississippi; Mississippi Mind: A Personal Cultural History of an American State |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=748–749 |doi=10.2307/2079683 |issn=0021-8723 |jstor=2079683}}
• {{Cite book |last=Yates |first=Gayle Graham |title=Life and Death in a Small Southern Town: Memories of Shubuta, Mississippi |date=2004 |publisher=LSU Press |isbn=978-0-8071-2937-1 |language=en}}Reviews of Life and Death in a Small Southern Town:
• {{Cite journal |last=Mack |first=Dwayne |date=2006 |title=Review |journal=Agricultural History |volume=80 |issue=4 |pages=486–488 |issn=0002-1482 |jstor=4617788}}
• {{Cite book |last=Yates |first=Gayle Graham |title=Ethics for Jessica: Meditations on Living |date=2010 |publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1-4982-5482-3 |language=en}}

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