Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vicious cycle is at work: traditional departments like History and Biology seem to be waiting to take their cue from a central program before creating more gender-related courses. At the same time, the Women's Studies Committee cannot attract top scholars without proving that the University is serious about the discipline...
...school year begins, Harvard students wanting to explore the discipline--which is really many fields including feminist literary criticism, post-Freudian psychology, women's history and gender issues--will have to pick and choose from a handful of courses sprinkled throughout various departments. The 50 or more seniors this year in traditional departments writing theses with Women's Studies slants will have to fight it out for the few advisors knowledgeable enough to guide them. And most, if not all, students wanting to design a special Women's Studies concentration will be denied the opportunity--of 30 applicants...
...university. We support the establishment of a degree-granting committee for Women's Studies, similar to Social Studies or to History and Literature. Regardless of its actual structure, such a program would at least offer several introductory, interdisciplinary courses and tutorials, which in time would be augmented by other gender-related courses in the various traditional departments...
Margaret R. Miles, a historical theologian, was named the first tenured woman in the 170-year history of the Divinity School. Miles, who has taught there since 1978, is highly regarded for her groundbreaking work on early church history and theological gender studies. The appointment of Miles is the first of seven lifetime teaching appointments scheduled over the next few years, as the school is in the midst of an unprecedented faculty turnover...
...vicious cycle is at work: traditional departments such as History and Biology seem to be waiting to take their cue from a central program before creating more gender-related courses. At the same time, the women's studies committee cannot attract top scholars without proving that the University is committed to the field...