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What Columbia fails to understand is that supporting feminist scholarship (and gender studies more broadly) has little to do with political struggles. Clearly someone's defense of the traditional canon is just as political as someone else's defense of multiculturalism. But what's more important is that multiculturalism--education which includes academic work by women and people of color--fosters better scholarship and makes for a better university...
...could a university reasonably argue that excluding feminist studies--or allowing them to languish--makes sense? Good scholarship cannot mean cordoning off certain areas of study, even if budgetary realities sometimes restrict the breadth of an institution's curriculum...
...this context, the voices of feminist scholars must be included in the chorus of the academy. Not to make people feel more comfortable, as the Harvey Mansfields of the world charge, but to create better scholarship and better universities...
...else are we to interpret his intellectually bogus claim that Harvard's Women's Studies Program "is not women's studies; it's feminist studies, a biased and one-sided point of view...
Quite the contrary. Women's Studies and Feminist Studies are two terms for the same field of studies--inquiry into the gender dynamics of historical and contemporary patterns in human affairs. The term "feminist" no more intrinsically distorts the scholarly character of inquiry into gender dynamics than the term "capitalist" intrinsically distorts the study of market dynamics in economic processes...