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...right to live with whatever genders they are most comfortable with,” says Haddock. Other members of the Harvard community are less openly ready to accept transgendered students. They aren’t necessarily critical; they simply haven’t taken a stand.Professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, often noted for his outspoken views on gender, has yet to take a position, but perhaps out of more practical concerns. “As things are, I’m in enough controversy right now,” he writes in an e-mail.But manly professors aren?...
...Manliness is a challenge to a gender neutral society,” said Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, in an interview aired this weekend to promote his recent book, “Manliness”. In the interview, shown on C-SPAN 2’s BookTV, feminist writer Naomi Wolf pressed Mansfield on his opinions about gender. Mansfield argued that manliness is a virtue, which he defined as “confidence in a situation of risk.” “Women don’t seek out risk...
...undergraduates, most Harvard students see their professors for six hours a week. This disconnect is not the fault of conservatism, or anti-semitism; it has to do with a lack of communication. Most students have not perused the collection of essays on general education penned by professors Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53, Helen Vendler, Stanley H. Hoffman, Richard F. Thomas, and others, offering insight into the thought process that supposedly guides the HCCR (and why should they have? They’re hidden away on the Facutly of Arts and Sciences website). It?...
...manliness in the past does not translate to the present or the future; it is not possible to derive an “ought” from an “is,” nor is it advisable to try to derive such a relation. Yet, when Mansfield defines “confidence in the face of risk” in male terms, he also implies a normative judgment about how men and women ought to act: women are told that it is unnatural or improper to harness a supposedly quintessential male characteristic...
Where President Lawrence H. Summers argued for the exploration of gender differences in scientific terms, Mansfield leaps into the realm of cross-societal analysis with his self-conscious “political incorrectness” concerning gender roles, and an insistence that a co-ed trait be defined by old, dead men. No matter how many Erica K. Jallis and Lauren A.E. Schukers—both recent Harvard Crimson presidents—grace this campus, it appears that one of Harvard’s eldest statesmen remains blind to the changing times...