Barnard women issue first communique on female alienation
A Barnard women’s page introduces its first communal issue by Ann Caplan Blaise Ferau Marge Freeman Jean Lichty and Paulette Mc Cormick. It discusses female alienation at Barnard critiques institutional friction and calls for sisterhood participation and feedback to shape future concerns and Consciousness raising groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Caplan
Blaise Ferau
Marge Freeman
Jean Lichty
Paulette McCormick
Barnard
Powers
Women’s Center
Barnard and the making of my feminism yet to unfold
The author recalls entering Barnard in 1968 when feminism was new and leaving four years later a convinced feminist. She critiques Barnard as an institution for failing to foster feminism through lack of community and a male-dominated faculty, noting 78 percent of full professors are men though some department chairs are women. She argues administrators and faculty, and many students, do not fully embrace feminist restructuring or recognize discrimination. Positive influences include a 1871 Barnard Columbia Conference on Women and dedicated feminist teachers who support students. The piece ends by questioning whether feminism itself may have failed Barnard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnard
The
Spectator
WECR
University Senate
Women's Center
Columbia
Barthard
Barnard Coumbia
Academic Life and Social Struggles at Barnard
Marjorie Freeman analyzes how academic life at Barnard affects self conceptions and social life. She argues the push to publish and deadlines create isolation, while pedagogy and course content fail to connect intellectual work with personal growth, urging student activism and feminist awareness through CR groups.
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Marjorie Freeman
Harvard
Hulletin
Barnard Womes
Elaine Feraru
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