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Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies

Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies

Patai, Daphne
Koertge, Noretta

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General EducationGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0739104551
ISBN13: 9780739104552
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jan 29 2003
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
Feminists have often called Women's Studies the 'academic arm of the women's movement.' But Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge charge that the attempt to make Women's Studies serve a political agenda has led to deeply problematic results: dubious scholarship, pedagogical practices that resemble indoctrination more than education, and the alienation of countless potential supporters. In this new and expanded edition of their controversial 1994 book, the authors update their analysis of what's gone wrong with Women's Studies programs. Original chapters feature interviews with professors, students, and staffers who invested much time and effort in Women's Studies, and new chapters look primarily at documents recently generated from within Women's Studies itself. Through critiques of actual program mission statements, course descriptions, newsletters, and e-mail lists devoted to feminist pedagogy and Women's Studies, and, not least, the writings of well-known feminist scholars, Patai and Koertge provide a detailed and devastating examination of the routine practices found in feminist teaching and research.

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