Here, the closest analogy might be older literature professors' turning their backs on the theory-niks. There are so many variables to look at besides just gender and power. Those that have gone their separate ways, however, seem to be thriving. Some apparently tranquil departments manage potential disagreement through a partial split. Harvard's, for example, has separate wings, in which each group has control over its own graduate-student admissions.
Good fences make polite neighbors, anyway.
Those are the sorts of open-ended questions inspired by recent events. Besides Stanford, the American Anthropologist has been the main site of tensions. So suspicious were biological anthropologists of the journal's co-editors that criticism began before they had published their first issue. The Tedlocks, both students of Mayan culture, had a mandate from the American Anthropological Association, which publishes the journal, to remake it. Circulation had been flat.