Word: gender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lines in debates over single-sex schools do not draw cleanly along conventional ideology. Similarly, many of the people calling for the death of Radcliffe rightly called themselves feminists. Was the lingering presence of Radcliffe beneficial to women undergraduates, or did it merely prevent Harvard from addressing problems of gender inequality sooner? Likewise, although the resurgent single-sex schools provide nurturing environments and self-esteem boosts for students in the short-term, how great is the long-term harm of postponing discussion of the problems that require such schools in the first place...
Jennifer Schirmer, a lecturer on social studies and the panel's moderator, said she hoped the evening would make women more aware of gender issues, which are "often ignored" in the world...
...sociohistorical contexts of rap's sexism and misogyny. Sherley Anne Williams's talk about rap grossly misunderstood the context within which rap develops and, unintentionally perhaps, located sexism in rap as an anticommunity symptom of a postindustrial urban nightmare rather than a manifestation of a long-standing set of gender relations." See, there you go, subversion. We have the privilege of having a new and different way of attacking the system...
Wilson repeatedly stressed yesterday that the new Institute will not take away opportunities from undergraduates and will bring more scholars focusing on women and gender to Cambridge. Yet she acknowledged that the former college will have no formal role in advocating for women at Harvard...
...update addresses some of students' concerns by breaking down faculty into gender and racial categories, but the administration has not answered everything or agreed to all of the changes the students advocate...