What price utopia? : essays on ideological policing, feminism, and academic affairs / Daphne Patai.

Author/creator Patai, Daphne, 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008.
Descriptionxi, 309 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Feminism and higher education--United States.
Feminism--United States.
Feminist theory--United States.
Women's studies--United States.

Contents Introduction: the fading face of humanism -- Utopia for whom? -- The struggle for feminist purity threatens the goals of feminism -- What price utopia? -- There ought to be a law -- Justice comes to U. Mass. -- Third thoughts about Orwell? -- Letter to a friend: on Islamic fundamentalism -- Women's words -- Who's calling whom "subaltern"? -- Sick and tired of scholars' nouveau solipsism -- Feminism and the future -- Domesticating tranquility -- Will the real feminists in academe please stand up? -- Whose truth? Iconicity and accuracy in the world of testimonial literature -- Heterophobia -- Heterophobia: the feminist turn against men -- Casting the first stone -- Politicizing the personal -- Do they have to be wrong? On writing about rape -- Women on top -- MacKinnon as bully -- Academic affairs -- Why not a feminist overhaul of higher education? -- Speak freely, professor - within the speech code -- The great tattling scare on campus -- Academic affairs -- You say social justice, I say political censorship -- Feminist pedagogy reconsidered -- On writing Theory's empire (with Will H. Corral).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007047912
ISBN9780742522268 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0742522261 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780742522275 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN074252227X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks LC197 .P37 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold