Word: eriksons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creating the sort of house where a family can feel at home remains the woman's unique responsibility. Among Daedalus articles lauding the career woman and condemning our society for assuming any difference between the sexes, Erik Erikson warned that "True equality can only mean the right to be uniquely creative...
This warning is particularly needed in Erikson's own university. Harvard and Radcliffe are full of sociologists who debate the fine points of a woman's psychology--and of students who ignore one of the major points about her role. Whether or not subtle distinctions exist between the sexies, for some time our society will con- tinue to delegate the serious responsibility of running a home to the woman--and continue to depend on her success in accepting this responsibility...
Later Erik H. Erikson, Professor of Human Development, addressed the symposium. "Women have long depended on men for their attitudes but they must learn to lose this dependence... Men want women to be in the home and to be non-competitive," he said...
...Erikson's speech concluded the second and final day of the symposium on "American Women in Science and Engineering." Over 250 delegates from 150 colleges attended the symposium, which was sponsored by the M.I.T. Association of Women Studies...
While the giants--Ec 1, Hist 169, Nat Sci 5, and Fine Arts 13--siphon off great bands of students, Erik Eriksons' Soc Sci 139 (Bust to Dust) initiates the ignorant in the mysteries of the life cycle, a modest subject on which Erikson's expertise has gained world acclaim, Life, writ large and lustily, is also a prime topic in one of the college's best (and toughest) English courses. "Chaucer" (Eng 115). For those with a yen for comparative studies, Professor Giovanni Sartori of the University of Florence holds forth in Gov 112b, "Political Systems of Continental Europe...