Word: genderism
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...campus will host two programs this fall exploring the situation for women. With last week's reading by Alice Walker, the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies committee kicked off an ambitious series titled "Gender at the Millennium," to inquire into the issues affecting women and men as the millennium approaches...
This series--along with a conference currently being organized by Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich titled "Gender at the Gates"--shows an increased interest in the state of women in the world and at Harvard...
...Amidst the apocalyptic clamor surrounding the millennium, this six-week series represents a modest attempt to slow the pace of celebration and anxiety," said Ann Pellegrini '86, assistant professor of English. "En route to the 21st century, we ask how women and gender might help us to think and enact the future with a feminist critical difference...
According to Pellegrini, who is also director of studies in the women's studies department, the series will address a variety of topics including how to write history, welfare reform, gender and race politics of family values and the global resurgence of religion...
...addressing the history of gender issues at Harvard-Radcliffe," said Ulrich, who is also a professor of women's studies. "I think it is important because there is a tremendous amount of misinformation and the issue is hot and heavy at the moment...