Word: stade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WOMEN at Radcliffe, we must respond to F. Skiddy von Stade's "realistic appraisal of woman's part in making our world sensible, or at least viable...
...they have something real riding on this. The thing in Vietnam for many of them, and if they get chucked out for this their chances of being sent there are far greater. But if the girls get heaved, they'll just go off to secretarial school." - F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, in the Oct. 12, 1969, Boston Globe about the 1969 strike...
...Quite simply, I do not see highly educated women making startling strides in contributing to our society in the foreseeable future. They are not, in my opinion, going to stop getting married and/or having children. They will fail in their present role as women if they do." - von Stade, in Aug. 25, 1969 letter...
...Stade states that the present role of women as wives and child-rearers prevents most women from making other kinds of contributions to society. We agree. But we challenge his assumption that our present role is an immutable fact, that our past necessarily sets the limits of our future. The present status of women is not fixed by nature itself, but is rather the product of our socialization, of our relationships to institutions, and of the family structure of society...
...into secondary status; all of them can be changed, and must be changed if women are going to be free to choose for ourselves what we are to be and how we are to make our social contribution. By ignoring the social causes of our present condition, Von Stade in fact would perpetuate our subordination. His "realistic appraisal" is, after all, an argument for the limitation of women's access to higher education...