Jan Kerkhoven, a Stanford doctoral student in education, was excluded from a class in feminist methodology after proposing a project that included both men and women as subjects of research. Kerkhoven, who believes repression of women is linked to "dehumanization," was excluded for being "not sufficiently committed to a gender outlook on social reality." Kerkhoven is male.

The exclusion sparked lunch meetings of the feminist studies department, talking about "how to deal with uncooperative and disruptive male students." "I definitely wasn't a disruptive student," Kerkhoven replied.

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