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...MN: Well, actually I had great support from my teachers and I was very lucky. But later, in graduate school, I encountered issues of sexual harassment which I had not encountered as an undergraduate, thank goodness, and I also encountered the terrible issues about child care and division of domestic labor...
...MN: All of those things were particularly hard on women, and I was lucky enough to live through the period when sexual harassment first became taken seriously. Harvard was one of the first places to have such an anti-harrasment policy, but I’m afraid that having the policy is just part of solving the problem. It’s certainly not the whole solution...
...MN: I came to graduate school at Harvard in Classics and then I got very excited by what was going on in the ancient philosophy department. John Rawls was teaching. It was a great era, a really golden era in philosophy...
...MN: Women’s studies and ethnic studies are interdisciplinary just like the Classics, and I think they have just about the same amount of unity as Classics, and they’re just as respectable. I think the critics just want to make a lot of noise, and they haven’t really looked very deeply at what’s going on in these disciplines. They haven’t thought too much about how disciplines are formed...
...MN: J.S. Mill. Mill, you know, is a terrific philosopher, but I also find him very appealing as a human being who could respect women. If you think of most of the great figures of philosophy, most were incapable of respecting women. Mill didn’t just write about that, he lived that. When I ask myself who would I like to meet, I think, “Well, I would like to meet somebody who would talk...