The wonderful Germaine Greer, when she first burst upon the scene in 1971, brought an exuberant Australian spirit to feminism whose loss I still mourn. Silly and spoiled as your classmates may be, I suspect they can't be worse than the cliquish sorority queens of my school days in the 1950s and early 1960s, when individualism of dress, behavior or thought was far more severely penalized. In the decades since the cultural and sexual revolution of 1960s, there has certainly been a rich variety of dissident role models, promulgated worldwide through books and mass media. My advice to you is to ignore the rich-bitch airheads and rejoice that you have access to the education that was denied to women for thousands of years. Concentrate on that.
Education is an individual responsibility.
And even when teachers are bad or biased, the library remains as the great treasure house of knowledge. That book is central to the culture wars that exploded in the United States in the late 1980s, since, on a massive scale, it became the token text for liberal literature teachers aiming for quick and easy racial diversification of their class reading lists. Walker is a longtime personal and professional intimate of Gloria Steinem, who is godmother to Walker's daughter, Rebecca, who in turn was a partner of fellow Yale graduate Naomi Wolf, among others, in founding Third Wave, a small, New York-based organization of younger feminists.