Re: Tenure, Title IX, Etc. (was Re: de-tenuring of Mary Daly (fwd))

[Beth Goldstein <bg28@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

and thanks to you as well Michael -- CIR is far worse than I had first
thought


beth


On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Michael Hoover wrote:

> > Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties David
> > R. Burgess is quoted as saying: "Professor Daly's refusal to admit men into
> > her courses violates both federal law and her contractual obligation to
> > Boston College.... Boston College's policy is that all of the University's
> > educational resources are available to all students, regardless of gender."
> > Yoshie
>
> any irony in Boston College not admitting women students until 1971,
> which means that Daly taught male-only courses for the first 5 years
> that she was on faculty there (I know, I know, we have to keep
> (his)torical context in mind...)
>
> her relationship with college has been difficult since 1974 when she
> informed administration that henceforth she intended her "Introduction
> to Feminist Ethics" to be a woman-only course because of problems she
> encountered in mixed-gender classes (she's actually on solid ground
> here given communication studies showing that women act differently
> in presence of men)...MD was denied full professorship a year later
> and has been publicly critical of BC administrators ever since, although
> they allowed her to take personal leave (making them complicit in her
> endeavor?) during 1979 & 1989 terms when 1-2 males registered for
> above course...
>
> as I understand it other courses she has taught in last 25 years have
> included men and, interestingly, feminist ethics is upper division
> course that carries pre-requisite - students are to have previously
> taken a women's studies course (which, btw, senior Duane Naquin had not
> done and MD apparently informed him of pre-req)...
>
> I don't care for Daly's essentialist cultural feminism and MD/BC would
> have likely lost a court case (although the pre-req thing would seem
> an issue in deciding for Naquin) but it is important to understand that
> this was an orchestrated incident choreographed by the same Center for
> Individual Rights that gave us *Hopwood* in its pursuit of eliminating
> affirmative action, denies the legitimacy of sexual harrassment, is
> committed to eradicating feminist points of view, and has received money
> from the Pioneer Fund which supports studies purporting to show genetic
> differences between whites and blacks...  Michael Hoover
>