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Rabbi Toba E. Spitzer â????85-â????86 said while she was undergraduate, she wasnâ????t sure she would even live to see the creation of womenâ????s studies as an academic field at Harvard...
...Harvard was the sole Ivy League school without a Womenâ????s Studies major. University officials appeared unconcerned about playing academic catch up, and the standing committee that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences had formed in 1982 to examine the issue of womenâ????s studies had to start its work from scratch...
...????Harvard was a bastion of patriarchy,â???? said Spitzer, who later became the first openly gay person to head a rabbinical assembly...
...Committeeâ????chaired by current Comparative Literature Professor Susan R. Suleimanâ????began to flesh out a new concentration proposal that required faculty approval...
...????When I became chair, the Committee on Womenâ????s Studies had existed for a number of years, but it didnâ????t have a lot of resourcesâ????letâ????s put it that way,â???? Suleiman said...