Professing Feminism Education and

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. Their three new chapters provide a devastating and detailed examination of the routine practices found in feminst teaching and research.

Daphne Patai is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction to the New and Expanded Edition

xiii

Part One: Cautionary Tales From the Strange World of Women's Studies

Prologue: On Airing Dirty Linen

xix

Introduction to the World of Women's Studies

1

(10)

Cautionary Tales from Women Who Walked Away

11

(33)

Students Who Stomp in Seminars

Political Purity and Hostile Colleagues

``Women's Studies Can Be Harmful''

``The Chickens Come Home To Roost''

``Who Owns Women's Studies?''

Scholarship in a Sea of Propaganda

Ideology and Identity: Playing the Oppression Sweepstakes

44

(37)

Unraveling the Web of Feminist Discontents

IDPOL: Identity Politics and Ideological Policing

The Amazon Laughed: ``Tell Your Brothers''

Sleeping with the Enemy

Dismantling White Women's Studies

Patriarchy and Pigs at the Trough

The Price of Oppressive Privilege

Proselytizing and Policing in the Feminist Classroom

81

(34)

Surviving Women's Studies: Students' Perspectives

Training the Cadres

Fulmination and Ferment

Propaganda and Resistance

Confusion and Condemnation

Feeling Good versus Becoming Competent

Feminist Pedagogy: A Midterm Report

Semantic Sorcery: Rhetoric Overtakes Reality

115

(20)

Throwing Away the Master's Tools: Playing Total REJ

Wordmagic and Other Language Games

Phony Philology

Metaphor Madness

Linguistic Litmus Tests

Accordion Concepts

The Power of Naming

Biodenial and Other Subversive Stratagems

135

(23)

Socially Constructing the Birds and the Bees

Is the Mind the Only Sex Organ?

Genderagenda: Cleansing the Curriculum of Phallic Phantasms

How ``Feminine'' Tunes Are ``Brutally Quashed''

``Logic . . . Is Insane''

Opposition to Exact Science

``Mirror, Mirror on the Wall'': Feminist Self-Scrutiny

158

(25)

Assessing Women's Studies

``Women's Ways of Knowing''

The Mission of Women's Studies

Connected Knowing and the ``Believing Game''

Critical Thinking, Feminist Style

``Quality Control'': Big Sister Is Watching You

Cults, Communes, and Clicks

183

(24)

True Believers All

Problems in the Promised Land

Arrested Development

``For Fear of Finding Something Worse''

From Dogma to Dialogue: The Importance of Liberal Values

207

(14)

Postscript

216

(5)

Part Two: Women's Studies in the New Millennium

Rhetoric and Reality in Women's Studies

221

(54)

Unmentionables

Hierarchy is a ``Guy'' Thing

Where's the Patriarchy?

Dissenting Voices

Recruiting Adherents

Policing the Academy

275

(46)

Feminist Pedagogy Redux

``Antifeminist Intellectual Harassment''

Why Not a Feminist Overhaul of Higher Education?

Protecting Some Speech

Going ``Bolivarian'' with a Feminist Twist

New Sexual Orthodoxies

Feminists Take on Science: Tilting at the Evil Empire

321

(42)

Feminist Incursions into Science Pedagogy

The Empire Fights Back: Gross, Levitt, and Sokal

Three Exemplars of Post-Science Wars Writings: Schiebinger, Potter, and Fausto-Sterling

The Chilly Climate within Women's Studies for Science Students

Women's Studies vis-a-vis Science Studies?

Conclusion

363

(8)

Notes

371

(36)

Index

407

(18)

About the Authors

425

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