An Ethical Justification of Women's Studies; or What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Hypatia 6 (2):137-151 (1991)
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The feminist in academe, says Paula Bennett, is like Procne married to Tereus, "inextricably wedded to the sources of her harm." An ethical justification of academic feminism can be found, not in cooperation and affiliation, but in the strategies currently necessary to ensure curricular and cultural diversity. Historically contextualized and strategically politicized, this ethic is founded on the claim that universities are places where we may all learn to know what is other than ourselves.

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