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Sexes Together

We hope that responsible men
here, instead of reacting with
hostility or indifference, will
respond with a reassessment of the
traditions of this "all-male"
university, as well as of the values
which have led to the exclusion of
women from full citizenship in this
community for so many years.

This re-evaluation on the part of
men as well as women is vital to all
of us. For women's liberation is
only a part of the larger movement
for human liberation. It does not
mean the liberation of women from
men, nor that women want to be
like men.

Rather it is the liberation of
both men and women from
confining societal roles which deny
to each sex one half of their full
personhood. Female liberation is
the liberation of the female
principle in all human beings -
both by freeing and encouraging in
men those attributes which are now
defined as female, and by no longer
relegating women, because of their
"female" attributes, to a secondary
status in society.

Our vision is of women and men
working together to free themselves
and each other from the tyranny of
sexual stereotypes which now
prescribe and limit the shape of our
humanity.