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With the women’s and gay liberation movement in the 1970s, Watkins says she found a new group of friends that she finally felt comfortable with.
Watkins stayed at UMass for 23 years until she retired, but even there she did not find the professional or social environment comfortable.
“[Radcliffe] made me a much better teacher because in some ways I seemed to come from Mars,” Watkins says. “I know a lot of things they didn’t know. So we communicated from two different countries and that?...
But looking back Watkins also says she found teaching “arduous work” and even “painful.”
Watkins says she was happy to retire at the age of 58.