If we are going to integrate the new materials on women into political science classes I believe it is important to do so in the introductory courses. Often it is only in the introductory courses that we reach nonmajors and give our potential majors a sense of the field. If we make clear to students how the new scholarship on women affects our concepts and ideas about the discipline, then our students get a sense of the questions that political scientists themselves are wondering about, and about how the discipline changes as it confronts new questions.

Nonetheless, in teaching the basic introduction to American Government course I have had what I expect is the typical experience: there is already too much to cover in a semester.