Word: mansfields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bodies, Ourselves" to misogynous Mansfield...
Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield tried to turn back progress at last week's faculty meeting. In the ballot to make Women's Studies a degree-granting program, Mansfield cast the lone dissenting vote of the entire Faculty of Arts and Science. The lack of any more organized opposition in the sometimes fractious faculty demonstrates how far Women's Studies has come as an academic field beyond the walls of the Yard. Now it's finally time for the discipline to continue its advances within them...
...this week the Faculty Council overwhelmingly approved a new concentration in Women's Studies. This proposal is no more academically viable than the proposal for White Men's Studies above, but in the entire faculty only Harvey Mansfield, to his infinite credit, opposed the motion...
...Women's Studies propgram at Harvard is no exception. As Prof. Mansfield pointed out, the program is biased towards a liberal critique, as evidenced by the Women's Studies 10 reading list. One of the surest signs fo the vitality of a discipline is the existence of disparate points of view among researchers in that discipline. Yet Women's Studies professors everywhere speak with one voice. Are there any Phyllis Schlaflys teaching Women's Studies? Any Jerry Fallwells? Anyone who disagrees significantly with Gloria Steinem, Bela Abzug, et al? I didn't think so. So what makes Women's Studies...
...What Mansfield dismisses as "feminist propaganda" is the study of theories that attempt to account for these statistics. I suppose then that other courses are also "vehicles for propaganda"--including Christian propaganda, Marxist propaganda or secular-humanist propaganda. I would guess that the Afro-American Studies courses are sympathetic to the plight of Blacks; does that make the field less legitimate? One would hope that the new concentration would indeed by objective and worthy of the term "scholarly pursuit." Pauline...