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Rabbi Toba E. Spitzer ??85-??86 said while she was undergraduate, she wasn’t sure she would even live to see the creation of women’s studies as an academic field at Harvard...
...??Harvard was a bastion of patriarchy,?? said Spitzer, who later became the first openly gay person to head a rabbinical assembly...
...??When I became chair, the Committee on Women’s Studies had existed for a number of years, but it didn’t have a lot of resources—let’s put it that way,?? Suleiman said...
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...
...??It was 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.?...