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Elizabeth Young ’85-’86, then president of the Radcliffe Union of Students who served on the Committee on Women??s Studies while the new concentration proposal was being crafted, said she had been concerned about the general status of women on campus: there was a “very low” number of women faculty, several episodes of sexual harassment, and lingering safety worries...
...clear that there was no institutional place for Women??s Studies,” said Young, now a professor of English and Gender Studies at Mt. Holyoke College. “We knew there was extremely exciting intellectual work out there that we really wanted to bring to Harvard...
...Committee was also adamant that Women??s Studies be a concentration, not a minor, modeling it after other interdisciplinary concentrations such as History and Literature or Social Studies...
...spring of 1986, the Faculty Council approved the proposal, and in November, the proposal for a women??s studies concentration went up for a full faculty vote. The Committee on Women??s Studies began to steel themselves for the decisive faculty meeting...
...packed November 1986 Faculty Meeting, Government Professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 stood to make a now infamous speech about the direction of academics at Harvard, questioning whether Women??s Studies should be a part...