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...students demanded that Janet Fjellman, who teaches Social Relations 1002, "Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective," be rehired for next year. B. Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology, notified Fjellman in January that her one-year contract would not be renewed...
...women's studies is Large, and the two remaining courses on the subject are limited-enrollment seminars. The handful of Faculty members competent to teach about women can accommodate only a small fraction of the students eager to explore these areas. A poll taken at the end of Fjellman's course revealed overwhelming enthusiasm on the part of the 80 participants and a desire to purse the subject in more depth...
...ACADEMICS in the Social Relations Department can do much to dispel the confusion they have helped to create by setting up specialized courses on women. Women such as Fjellman on the Faculty could teach these courses, perform research, and supervise students--could in short, create the body of scholarship necessary to flesh out the study of women and insure its place in the study of Social Relations...
...myths and misunderstandings about women are just beginning to dissipate, and there is an obvious need for more courses and research about women, not less. Fjellman's course is a particularly important one because it traces women's oppression to its political, economic, and social causes rather than ascribing it to innate genetic inferiority. Man, not nature, has created woman's situation, Fjellman says; woman can change it. Her course provides the basis for an attack on the status...
...financial condition demands that it ignore women's studies. Like all bureaucracies, the University finds funds for those activities it considers important and discards the rest. We consider courses on women a vital part of the University's academic mission. As a start to fulfilling that mission, Janet Fjellman's course should be renewed and her course contract reinstated...