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“Sororities don’t advertise many details about their history beyond the stories of their founders. Have you ever wondered why?”

-Margaret L. Freeman, Ph.D.

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Big thank you to Mike Ayalon @greekuniversity for having me back on The Fraternity Foodie Podcast! I join Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd @miz.ebboyd, author of Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South, to discuss sororities’ contin
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Women of Discriminating Taste

Women of
Discriminating Taste

Available now from the University of Georgia Press

Margaret Freeman-writer-historian
Additional Essays-The Right Side of the Sixties-Rethinking Campus Life

You can also read my shorter essays on white college sororities in The Right Side of the Sixties, edited by Laura Jane Gifford and Daniel K. Williams, and Rethinking Campus Life, edited by Christine A. Ogren and Marc A. VanOverbeke.

Real sorority history.

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Do you have a sorority story to share? I welcome your comments and questions!