What price utopia?
Subtitle: essays on ideological policing, feminism, and academic affairs
By: Daphne Patai.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780742522268; 9780742522275
Subjects: Feminism and higher education -- United States; Feminism -- United States; Feminist theory -- United States; Women's studies -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.273-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the fading face of humanism; title: Utopia for whom?; title: The struggle for feminist purity threatens the goals of feminism; title: What price utopia?; title: There ought to be a law; title: Justice comes to U. Mass.; title: Third thoughts about Orwell?; title: Letter to a friend: on Islamic fundamentalism; title: Women's words; title: Who's calling whom "subaltern"?; title: Sick and tired of scholars' nouveau solipsism; title: Feminism and the future; title: Domesticating tranquility; title: Will the real feminists in academe please stand up?; title: Whose truth? Iconicity and accuracy in the world of testimonial literature; title: Heterophobia; title: Heterophobia: the feminist turn against men; title: Casting the first stone; title: Politicizing the personal; title: Do they have to be wrong? On writing about rape; title: Women on top; title: MacKinnon as bully; title: Academic affairs; title: Why not a feminist overhaul of higher education?; title: Speak freely, professor - within the speech code; title: The great tattling scare on campus; title: Academic affairs; title: You say social justice, I say political censorship; title: Feminist pedagogy reconsidered; title: On writing Theory's empire (with Will H. Corral).