Letters to the Editor
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Women's Studies is not a discipline
It's an agenda.
A discipline is subject matter. And within that subject matter all viewpoints exist. Economics, example, includes laissez-faire, Friedmanism, Marxism. Every viewpoint about wealth and money can be countered by an opposing viewpoint.
When was the last time you heard of a pro-life Women's Studies course? Or a Women's Studies professor holding that women are NOT suitable for positions of leadership?
There is nothing studied in Women's Studies that can't be studied within the existing fields of psychology, history, economics, anthropology, etc. Splitting off existing WS courses to those fields would expose the professors to a much more diverse student body and students who actually disagree with them, and would expose their scholarship to true critical peer review. This would only improve the quality of their teaching and of their scholarship.