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According to several students who shopped 10b, "Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures: From 1650 to the Present," Goelet Professor of French History Patrice L. Higonnet '58 discussed gender roles and sexuality and showed explicit slides of historical drawings of genitalia in the class...
...Higonnet, however, said that he had not set out to teach a survey of events, dates and names, but rather "the origin, development and decline of the ways that people thought about life, history and politics from the middle of the seventeenth century to our own century...
...Higonnet said that he had not meant to shock his audience. "I went out of my way not to offend anybody...
...meant for the lecture to be surprising," said Higonnet. "My idea was not to shock, my idea was to make people understand that their lives, and historical lives, are constantly being reinterpreted...
Maier joined Goelet Professor of French History Patrice L. Higonnet and History Department Chair Edward L. Keenan '57 in criticizing the prelimary proposals...