February 22nd, 2012 at 6:00PM
Women in Academia: Where Are the Lines?

From the article:

What I mean is that thoughts and insights about issues and movements like feminism and anti-racism that from the general culture should be brought into and applied to academia, but insights from academic culture cannot be applied to the general culture in the same way. Academia is not somehow magically immune from the issues of sexism, for example, no matter how “enlightened” some people claim this place to be: the things we see in “the real world” are the same things we see locked up in this ivory tower.

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