Word: favority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Susan Ware, a graduate student in History who has taught women's studies sections, is in favor of a concentration because "you can't depend on the good will and free time of grad students." She points out the danger that women might not come to Radcliffe because of its failure to compete with other schools that do offer women's studies...
Even if they are not personally interested, Orgel thinks most students seem to be in favor of setting up a women's studies concentration for those who want it. "When I tell them that I personally could name at least 20 people who want to major in women's studies, they're interested," she adds...
Those who teach the few women's studies courses at Harvard are divided on how to establish their field. Catherine Widom says she would favor a concentration if it was to be an interdisciplinary committee because "There's lot of potential for people in a separate department to be put aside and forgotten. Teachers might have a stronger position in a regular department." As an interim measure designed to integrate the material into general courses, she suggests that the committee prepare information packets for professors, who she thinks would be receptive to such attempts. Goodenough favors any efforts...
...sixth-grader back in Orangeburg, S.C., Kay was the only student willing to debate in favor of the resolution that the South should have lost the Civil War. She argued for that heresy so well that the teacher advised her to become a lawyer. She was the driving force behind California's Family Law Act of 1969, which first established the principle of no-fault divorce. She teaches courses in family law, sex discrimination (she and Ruth Ginsburg collaborated on a widely used casebook on the subject), and joins with Berkeley Anthropologist Laura Nader in a seminar on anthropology...
...University of Massachusetts-Boston and author of Marital Separation. It is no longer seen as a "calling" or a "social responsibility" but merely as an adjunct to the good life. This change, which Benjamin DeMott sums up as scrapping " 'in sickness and in health' in favor of 'I do my thing and you do your thing,' " is not so much the result of sexual permissiveness and easier divorce laws as, like them, an offshoot of what Weiss describes as the "intensity of our impatience with barriers to self-realization." Weiss adds...