Educated in Romance : Women, Achievement, and College Culture

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Educated in Romance : Women, Achievement, and College Culture by Holland, Dorothy C., 9780226349442
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  • ISBN: 9780226349442 | 0226349446
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Copyright: 4/15/1992

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Is romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goals but leave with dramatically scaled-down ambitions? Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart expose a pervasive "culture of romance" on campus: a high-pressure peer system that propels women into a world where their attractiveness to men counts most.
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