Word: gendered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crucial question was whether the Institutewould confine itself to women's and gender studiesor would examine a wide range of disciplines, withan important "focus" on women. Radcliffe wanted"women, gender and society" (a favoriteWilson-ism) to be included in the statement'sfirst sentence. Harvard insisted on emphasizing"advanced work in the academic disciplines,professions, or creative arts" first...
Although Lewis refused to indicate his intentions, he said smaller blocking groups would afford the College increased flexibility in creating gender balance in the Houses. Reduced blocking group size would allow the College to lower the acceptable range of gender ratios that govern housing assignments...
...Institute will combine Radcliffe's current educational and research programs with a new cadre of visiting scholars whose work will focus on a wide range of topics, including gender issues...
...several formal proposals. A plan put forward by three alumnae leaders called for an activist Radcliffe Center, the focal point for all women's programming on campus. Another plan, by five female members of the Faculty, would have created an Institute devoted specifically to the study of women and gender. Undergraduates, meanwhile, clamored and still agitate for a "women's center" to offer services they felt neither Harvard nor Radcliffe were currently giving them...
...Institute, though, will have no ties to the Women's Studies program. In fact, the study of gender will be subordinate to a much broader focus on "the academic disciplines, professions and the creative arts"--in short, everything...