Summary Of The Tumultuous Years

After reading the rest part of “The Tumultuous Years” and “Deans of Women and Feminist Movement”, I felt so proud that I was in KU, the university which has done a lot of movements during these ‘tumultuous’ years to make the school a better place. As the Deans of Women through that period, Emily Taylor played an important role. In chapter 6, we can see she utilized her professional skills to push a bunch of process in feminist movements. For example, as it was written in chapter 6, ‘As the national IAWS advisor, Taylor specifically sought feminist growth between younger and older women. While IAWS and NADW activism remained anchored in liberal feminist practices, Taylor’s reliance on the intergenerational approach meant that some campuses built coalitions across the divide between liberal and radical feminist philosophies as well.’ However, she did a great job dealing with the problem ‘where “Liberal” and “Radical” Intersect’.
Kelly Sartorius wrote in the chapter, ‘together, Taylor, her staff, the AAUP Committee W, AWS, and the radical protestors who barricaded the doors of the East Asian building all contributed to the institutional recognition of women’s equity, women’s sexuality, and fair hiring practices so that women could advance in the faculty and campus leadership.’ So it’s not hard for us to find out that indispensably it was Emily Taylor that created a more equal, fairer place for women students nowadays to study and enjoy the environment better on