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...women seriously. Throughout its history, the University has treated women with callous neglect--as employees, as students and scholars, and as subjects for serious academic study. The Social Anthropology faculty was following a hallowed Harvard tradition, therefore, when it refused to renew the one-year teaching contract of Janet Fjellman, lecturer on Social Relations and a radical feminist. Fjellman's course, Social Relations 1002, "Women from a Cross-Cultural Perspective," is currently the only open-enrollment course on women's studies available to undergraduates. It will not be offered next year, for no one else is qualified to teach...
...stated reason for Fjellman's dismissal is a familiar one--funds, it seems, are not available. Irven DeVore, acting chairman of the Social Anthropology faculty, said last week that he has no complaint about Fjellman's competence and that he personally has "tremendous respect for her intellectual abilities." But DeVore said that there are other--more urgent--areas of scholarship to which available funds must be devoted. He cited two other members of the Social Anthropology faculty with one-year contracts who are being rehired--Harvard's only specialists on Chicano and American Indian studies. DeVore said that ethnic studies...
...group met at the Women's Center this past Monday to organize Women's Studies courses. A nucleus of about fifteen, including Tasha Tennebaun, teaching fellow in Latin American history, Ruth Hubbard, lecturer on biology, and Janet Fjellman, lecturer on social anthropology, suggested that those interested in the courses should call the People's Switchboard at 4953454. The format may be oriented toward a group experience or may take a more traditional and scholarly approach. Among the topics considered were the biology of sex differences, a history of the women's movement, lesbianism, an anthropological study of women in various...
...Most of the women to receive Corporation appointments will be found in the social sciences and literature. A second husband-and-wife team will share a training grant in Social Anthropology, receiving identical one-year lectureships. Janet Fjellman, the woman,may teach a course on the role of women viewed cross-culturally...