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...would be the new "Radcliffe Professors"? Katha Pollit, Nancy Chodorow, Toni Morrison, Donna Shalala, Judith Butler, Maxine Hong Kingston, Catharine MacKinnon, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Arlie Hochschild, Alice Walker. You fill in the blank. The availability of serious scholars is not the problem. Here, the Field of Dreams dictum of "if you build it, they will come" prevails...
Other panelists were Veronica Eady, the executive director of Alternatives for Community and Environment, and a member of the board of directors of the Sierra Club; Robert Massie, executive director of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies; and Michael B. McElroy, Butler professor of environmental studies and chair of the Harvard University Committee on the Environment. Rep. Philip Sharp (D-Ind.) moderated the panel...
Other panelists were Veronica Eady, the executive director of Alternatives for Community and Environment, and a member of the board of directors of the Sierra Club; Robert Massie, executive director of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies; and Michael B. McElroy, Butler professor of environmental studies and chair of the Harvard University Committee on the Environment. Rep. Philip Sharp (D-Ind.) moderated the panel...
...William Butler Yeats feared a world in which "the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity." Yeats would see it as tragic that pit-dwellers feel their suburban angst more passionately than Harvard students feel touched by art or philosophy. We can yet disprove Yeats' fears, so long as we remember that intellectual rigor and our desire for mastery in dealings with others need not preclude a healthy sense of intensity, longing, curiosity and wonder...
...response to Marc Ambinder's "Here Come the Gender Theorists," (Opinion, March 11, 1999), I would like to point out Ambinder's basic misunderstanding of gender theory. Deconstructive gender theory, which includes the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, but also scholars such as Diana Fuss, Eve Sedgwick and Kaja Silverman to name a few, examines the social meanings attached to categories of masculinity and femininity. It does not deny that anatomical sex determines whether one is male or female but suggests that the value placed on these categories is culturally determined. In the first page of Bodies That...