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...concerned by Travis R. Kavulla??s grossly generalized and unnuanced mischaracterization of the scholarly pursuits and academic interests that Women’s Studies encourages (Column, “Studying Women’s Studies,” Nov, 25). That the work pursued by women’s studies concentrators “fits into other disciplines” does not undermine the academic necessity or significance of women’s studies. Rather, it suggests that disciplinary borders are often constructed and reveals the need for increased fluidity across disciplinary lines rather than the more conventional...
...Kavulla??s critique of the committee’s foundation courses is also without merit as he neglected to fully investigate the fact that students are engaged in grappling with the tensions that have been a part of feminist theory since its inception. Students are constantly examining the core questions that underpin feminist theory: how to define feminism, how to construct a theory and a praxis that is meaningfully inclusive, how to describe the subject of feminism, how to examine an array of areas of feminist inquiry (including motherhood, marriage and sexuality) and how to engage with...
...part of the central project of women’s studies. This is not unlike the work that occurs in any other department. That is, history concentrators study history as they also grapple with what constitutes history, who crafts history, what methods are used to collect history, etc. Under Kavulla??s logic, the work that is occurring in any discipline is necessarily “tunnel visioned” by virtue of the fact that we read the core texts of our discipline before problematizing those texts and putting them into dialogue with the work occurring in other...
...Kavulla??s suggestion is also particularly ridiculous when one considers that Institute alumni have reached the top of a huge variety of fields. While MIT is justly proud of its fifteen sons and daughters who are now Nobel Laureates, I doubt even Kavulla himself would say that William R. Hewlett MIT SM ’36 (of Hewlett Packard Co.), Benjamin Netanyahu, MIT Class of 1975 (former Israeli Prime Minister), I.M. Pei, MIT Class of 1940 (architect of Boston’s John Hancock Tower among other things), and Tom and Ray Magliozzi, of MIT Classes...
...Core, whatever its identifiable problems, is not in need of an overhaul so much as a tweak. And it is certainly not in need of an overhaul along the lines of Kavulla??s suggestions. Am I indeed a more liberally educated person if I take Philosophy 168 instead of Michael Sandel’s “Justice”? Or do I know a lot about Kant while having missed out on Aristotle, Locke, Mill and Rawls...