Word: mansfield
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...quotations are obviously meant to provoke. According to Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, women "do not constitute a community like Blacks do." What exactly does he mean by the term "community"? It is quite obvious that women have a different social experience which unifies them, much in the way the Black experience unifies Blacks. This assertion is supported by "hard" statistics relating to the connections between women and clinical depression, suicide, addictions, fear of success, low self-confidence and diseases that are almost exclusively female, such as bulimia and anorexia. Such afflictions are not congenital--they are learned. They...
...writing to express my grave disappointment with the opinion Professor Harvey Mansfield expressed in the October 23 Crimson article, "Faculty Vote Nears on Plan to Create a Concentration in Women's Studies." Though previously apathetic towards this proposition, I was none the less appalled by this senior faculty member's insensitivity and apparent lack of consideration over this important issue...
Specifically, Mansfield made two statements with which I take exception: (1) that "women don't constitute a community like Blacks do;" and (2) that "courses defined as 'Women's Studies' are non-scholarly, partisan and more often than not, guts." Are members of the "intellectually enlightened" Harvard community expected to condone such beliefs that border on the sexist...
...friend--whose attitude is sadly not at all that atypical--and the uproar a Women's Studies proposal has generated demonstrate, we are living in a community of dangerous subliminal bias. This conclusion, then, is my motivation for supporting a women's studies concentration. Contrary to what Mansfield has implied, I believe that there does exist a separate discipline encompassing the history, psychology, literature, etc. of women that current courses do not adequately cover. Women are, in fact, a community--if an illdefined one--and the equality Mansfield presupposes does not necessarily exist beyond the surface, as we would...
However some women weren't satisfied with these small changes. Jane E. Mansfield '66 wrote a letter to The Crimson, published October 18, which complained about the West Door entrance. Citing the 82 steps up which Cliffies had to climb, Mansfield attacked Harvard's back of the bus policy" towards women...