Informationen zum Autor Daphne Patai is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author and editor of a dozen books, including Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism ; Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies ; and Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent . Klappentext This volume brings together for the first time more than two dozen of Daphne PataiOs serious and sometimes satirical essays dealing with the academic and intellectual orthodoxies of our time. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together for the first time more than two dozen of Daphne PataiOs serious and sometimes satirical essays dealing with the academic and intellectual orthodoxies of our time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: The Fading Face of Humanism Part 2 Utopia for Whom? Chapter 3 The Struggle for Feminist Purity Threatens the Goals of Feminism Chapter 4 What Price Utopia? Chapter 5 There Ought to be a Law Chapter 6 Justice Comes to U. Mass. Chapter 7 Feminism and the Future Chapter 8 Third Thoughts about Orwell? Chapter 9 Letter to a Friend: On Islamic Fundamentalism Part 10 Women's Words Chapter 11 Who's Calling Whom "Subaltern"? Chapter 12 When Method Becomes Power Chapter 13 Sick and Tired of Scholars' Nouveau Solipsism Chapter 14 Domesticating Tranquility Chapter 15 Will the Real Feminists in Academe Please Stand Up? Chapter 16 Whose Truth? Iconicity and Accuracy in the World of Testimonial Literature Part 17 Heterophobia Chapter 18 Heterophobia: The Feminist Turn Against Men Chapter 19 Politicizing the Personal Chapter 20 Do They Have To Be Wrong? On Writing About Rape Chapter 21 Women on Top Chapter 22 MacKinnon as Bully Part 23 Academic Affairs Chapter 24 Why Not a Feminist Overhaul of Higher Education? Chapter 25 Speak Freely, Professor-Within the Speech Code Chapter 26 The Great Tattling Scare on Campus Chapter 27 Academic Affairs Chapter 28 You Say Social Justice, I Say Political Censorship Chapter 29 Feminist Pedagogy Reconsidered Chapter 30 On Writing Theory's Empire (with Will H. Corral) ...

Klappentext

This volume brings together for the first time more than two dozen of Daphne PataiOs serious and sometimes satirical essays dealing with the academic and intellectual orthodoxies of our time.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Fading Face of Humanism
Part 2 Utopia for Whom?
Chapter 3 The Struggle for Feminist Purity Threatens the Goals of Feminism
Chapter 4 What Price Utopia?
Chapter 5 There Ought to be a Law
Chapter 6 Justice Comes to U. Mass.
Chapter 7 Feminism and the Future
Chapter 8 Third Thoughts about Orwell?
Chapter 9 Letter to a Friend: On Islamic Fundamentalism
Part 10 Women's Words
Chapter 11 Who's Calling Whom "Subaltern"?
Chapter 12 When Method Becomes Power
Chapter 13 Sick and Tired of Scholars' Nouveau Solipsism
Chapter 14 Domesticating Tranquility
Chapter 15 Will the Real Feminists in Academe Please Stand Up?
Chapter 16 Whose Truth? Iconicity and Accuracy in the World of Testimonial Literature
Part 17 Heterophobia
Chapter 18 Heterophobia: The Feminist Turn Against Men
Chapter 19 Politicizing the Personal
Chapter 20 Do They Have To Be Wrong? On Writing About Rape
Chapter 21 Women on Top
Chapter 22 MacKinnon as Bully
Part 23 Academic Affairs
Chapter 24 Why Not a Feminist Overhaul of Higher Education?
Chapter 25 Speak Freely, Professor-Within the Speech Code
Chapter 26 The Great Tattling Scare on Campus
Chapter 27 Academic Affairs
Chapter 28 You Say Social Justice, I Say Political Censorship
Chapter 29 Feminist Pedagogy Reconsidered
Chapter 30 On Writing Theory's Empire (with Will H. Corral)