Word: genderization
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...next year--the second joint Radcliffe-Harvard ceremony, about 200 Radcliffe seniors wore red and white banners sporting female gender symbols over their gowns. Coming out of a class with a male-female ratio of four to one, the graduates called for Harvard to balance the number of men and women accepted...
Still, there are indications that recognition of the field is seeping through even Harvard's Ivy walls. The College's women's studies committee recently won a Mellon Grant to found a Gender Studies seminar featuring international guest scholars--which was so popular that only a handful of undergraduates could be accepted. Also, the Extension School will begin offering women's studies degrees. These small gains both indicate growing recognition of the field's legitimacy and significance and also highlight the College's weakness in this area...
...university. We support the establishment of a degree-granting committee for women's studies, similar to Social Studies or to History and Literature. Regardless of its actual structure, such a program would at least offer several introductory, interdisciplinary courses and tutorials which in time would be augmented by other gender-related courses in the various traditional departments. One such course already exists in General Education 100, "Introduction to Women's Studies," but this overwhelmingly popular offering is only taught in alternate years, and its graduates have little chance to follow it up in other departments...
...vicious cycle is at work: traditional departments such as History and Biology seem to be waiting to take their cue from a central program before creating more gender-related courses. At the same time, the women's studies committee cannot attract top scholars without proving that the University is committed to the field...
...modernism Elsewhere the castigates those writers who reduce affairs of the heart to a affairs of the glands. Epstein wants literatures sustain man and make him "better." Unfortunately, the feminists and leftists Epstein attacks claim that the amelioration and richness of life lie within the conflicts of politics and gender. Quickly and predictably, the argument turns from literature to philosophy and politics...