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...Seyla Benhabib, a political and social theorist who specializes in feminist thought, will be the second woman senior professor in the Government Department...
Keohane is currently the president of Wellesley College, where she also teaches political science. She will become the eighth president of Duke University on July 1. She is the author of Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightment (1980) and co-editor of Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology...
Welcoming that challenge also means dealing equitably with groups with which was disagree. So we were troubled by the manner in which the Harvard Foundation bestowed grants to student organizations this year. The race relations office proffered funding to the rag, a feminist magazine and to HQ, a gay-issues magazine. But the office, whose mandate is to award grants that promote interracial understanding last year denied funding to Peninsula, an often-inflammatory right-wing publication whose editors were planning an issue devoted to race relations. Again, the conflict between diversity and open expression became a matter of campus debate...
...emergence of such magazines as Yisei (Korean-American), HQ (gay, lesbian and bisexual), the rag (feminist) and Point of Reference (Greek-American) forms only part of identity politics. Rallies and angry letters form some of the other salvos...
...make Harvard in particular a crucible of identity politics. Kim "hadn't been able to articulate" her Koreanness in high school. Yet in the last four years, Kim solidified her ethnic identity through Kutguhri, Yisei and contact with Koreans in Boston. And a Divinity School class, "Toward an Asian Feminist Theology of Culture," has fed her growing interest in women's issues...