Article: Notes & Comments: February 1998.(women's studies; New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Abolish women's studies

So-called "women's studies" programs began cropping up on campuses across the country in the 1970s. Although they started largely in imitation of the militant black studies programs that had swept the country's colleges and universities in the late Sixties, they soon vastly outstripped black and other minority studies programs in size and influence. Today, there is hardly a college campus that doesn't sport a women's studies program or department. At many institutions, it is even possible to major in women's studies.

The very familiarity of these developments has lulled many people into forgetting how odd they are. For what ...

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