Featured here are several pictures of women (and men) who attended Sarah Lawrence College. Founded in 1926, Sarah Lawrence originally began as a finishing school for young women. The college, which William Van Duzer Lawrence created to honor his wife, Sarah Bates Lawrence, quickly evolved into a full-fledged liberal arts institution. Sarah Lawrence became coeducational in 1967, and has since graduated such influential men as J.J Abrams, Damani Baker, and Rahm Emanuel.
Like other fully-female institutions (Smith, Barnard, Mount Holyoke) and schools which began as women-only and now accept men (Vassar), Sarah Lawrence educates with a history of a belief in the female being. Originally recognized as "different," women were able to attend such schools and gain for themselves an education, even if the skills they learned originally consisted of sewing. It's the thought that counts.
Today, many of these schools are known for turning out women known as feminists; women who believe in themselves and the power of their sex. Furthermore, many men-feminists graduate alongside the females (at any given institution), proving that equality operates through inclusion. Feminism, which may sound to men like a scary, women-only movement policed by Feminazis or "Feminist Police," has, like many schools, become coeducational.
The poll "Are you a feminist?" refers to this divide. On one hand, literature such as Shira Tarrant's Men and Feminism shows that men have become active within feminism; on the other hand, others shy away from even the term. The polls answer options ("Yes," "No," or "No, I am a boy/man") I provided intended to show the alienation men feel from feminism. That is why no "Yes, I am a boy/man" answer existed; you can be a feminist regardless of gender. With feminism, everyone should be included.
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