Word: swidler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department continued to honor its part of the University's commitment to affirmative action: with the hiring early this year of Ann Swidler '66, three of the department's five junior faculty are women, all of them hired in the last two years...
...sources also said that recent pledges by the University to hire women and minority group members did not influence Swidler's appointment, particularly because Sociology--a small department--already has three women non-tenured members and one black tenured professor...
...Swidler, contacted yesterday in Berkeley, described herself as a feminist, but not a Marxist, "even though most of my friends are Marxists...
...academic interests are in Marxist-oriented fields, such as the sociology of knowledge, classes in society, and class consciousness, Swidler said...
...Swidler was chosen largely because of her teaching reputation at Berkeley, sources in the department said yesterday...