Word: prewitt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Julia Prewitt Brown, 41, was a member of B.U.'s English Department from 1974 until she was denied tenure in 1981. At one point, university President John Silber termed the department "a damn matriarchy" although only only six out of 20 members of the department at the time were female, according to court testimony...
...years to promote economic development in Third World countries and focus on politically controversial goals like fostering contraception. "Because philanthropy is not concerned with election returns or stockholders, we see ourselves deliberately moving into things that government and business are not picking up," says Rockefeller Foundation Vice President Kenneth Prewitt. In America, charity is not just the fruit of compassion; it is a legacy of free choice...
...mandatory birth control program in Chinese villages. The article was illustrated with photographs of women in advanced states of pregnancy who were about to have abortions. Peking saw the article as anti-Chinese propaganda. Zhao Fusan, a top official of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, warned Kenneth Prewitt, president of the Social Science Research Council, that if Mosher were not disciplined, there could be "negative consequences" for scholarly exchanges. In February 1982, Fusan asked Stanford to "deal with this matter sternly...
...published the article. Many leading U.S. anthropologists believe that it violated the profession's code of ethics by failing to disguise the women pictured and to protect their privacy. In addition, officials who allowed Mosher to take the photographs were exposed to possible punishment by higher authorities. Says Prewitt: "What Mosher discovered is an important contribution to anthropology. How he reported it is a tragedy for the field...
...Prewitt and many other experts, including Stanford's Barnett, agree that Mosher had a right to publish his research. The usual practice, however, is to write an article for a professional journal. Mosher eventually did that, contributing a report, without pictures, to the scholarly Asian Survey journal. A book, titled Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese, will be published by Macmillan in the fall. Says Mosher: "I have an obligation to the Chinese whose lives I shared to document the reality of village life under Communism...