Friday, September 17, 2010
Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?
The middle-class father, preparing to meet tuition fees of $40,000 or more, and board and lodging on top of that, will naturally dwell on all the ways in which this represents a good investment. But when his daughter emerges three or four years later with a degree in Women's Studies, the main outward sign of which is a well-honed grievance against men in general and the last one in particular, he is likely to question the wisdom of throwing away a third of a million dollars on such an outcome. You don't say.
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How's the women's studies program where your kid's going, Tecs?
Absolutely first class. You interested?
Is there money in that?
Not really. But you get to study a fascinating subject, as opposed to playing with \lessims. Ask Christine O'Donnell to explain the difference.
She was Lit. Not women's lit or studies.
It is true that by the time she got her diploma these disciplines existed. But not while she was still in college.
Womyn studies or whatever have been around for a long time--certainly since the 1980s, no?
I thought it was newfangled, but no.
The first Women's Studies Program in the United States was established on May 21, 1970 at San Diego State College (now San Diego State University) after a year of intense organizing of women's consciousness raising groups, rallies, petition circulating, and operating unofficial or experimental classes and presentations before seven committees and assemblies.[1] Carol Rowell Council was the student co-founder along with Dr. Joyce Nower, a literature instructor. A second program followed within weeks at Richmond College of the City University of New York (now the College of Staten Island). In 1972, Sarah Lawrence College became the first institution to grant Masters degrees Women's History. Throughout the later 1970s many universities and colleges created departments and programs in women's studies, and professorships became available in the field which did not require the sponsorship of other departments.
Fun to sit on faculty senate with those shrews?
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