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ISBN
074252227X
EAN
9780742522275
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
074252227X
ISBN-13
9780742522275
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309467837

Product Key Features

Book Title
What Price Utopia? : Essays on Ideological Policing, Feminism, and Academic Affairs
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies
Genre
Social Science
Author
Daphne Patai
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.7 in
Item Weight
15.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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LCCN
2007-047912
Dewey Edition
22
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For twenty years, Daphne Patai, whose awareness of these bizarre phenomena grew out of her own bitter experience with the seamy side of women's studies, has been a courageous contrarian voice, challenging the anti-intellectualism and the old fashioned power-lust that the ethos of "politically committed" teaching and scholarship has visited on campus life. The essays in What Price Utopia? fully display the range and vigor of Patai's arguments and testify to the enduring strength of the liberal ideals of intellectual freedom and the inviolable sanctity of private life. She brings the good news that the best of the Enlightenment still lives if only we have the guts to defend it against the sneers of its trendy enemies., "For twenty years, Daphne Patai, whose awareness of these bizarre phenomena grew out of her own bitter experience with the seamy side of women's studies, has been a courageous contrarian voice, challenging the anti-intellectualism and the old fashioned power-lust that the ethos of "politically committed" teaching and scholarship has visited on campus life. The essays in What Price Utopia? fully display the range and vigor of Patai's arguments and testify to the enduring strength of the liberal ideals of intellectual freedom and the inviolable sanctity of private life. She brings the good news that the best of the Enlightenment still lives if only we have the guts to defend it against the sneers of its trendy enemies." --Norman Levitt, Rutgers University, author of Higher Superstition and Prometheus Bedeviled
Dewey Decimal
378.0082
Table Of Content
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)
Synopsis
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., This volume brings together for the first time more than two dozen of Daphne PataiOs incisive and at times satirical essays dealing with the academic and intellectual orthodoxies of our time. Patai draws on her years of experience in an increasingly bizarre academic world, where a stifling politicization threatens genuine teaching and learning. Addressing the rise of feminist dogma, the domination of politics over knowledge, the shoddy thinking and moralizing that hide behind identity politics, and the degradation of scholarship, her essays offer a resounding defense of liberal values. Patai takes aim at the unctuous and also dangerous posturing that has brought us restrictive speech codes, harassment policies, and a vigilante atmosphere, while suppressing plain speaking about crucial issues. But these trenchant essays are not limited to academic life, for the ideas and practices popularized there have spread far beyond campus borders. Included are two new pieces written especially for this volume, one on the bullying tactics of a famous feminist and the other on Islamic fundamentalism., Utopia comes at a cost. Daphne Patai knows this from experience as a university professor who began her career as an avant-guard feminist and then came to question the premises, the means, and the ends of her feminist colleagues in the academy. She was castigated, threatened with lawsuits, and excluded. In this collection of essays, Patai explores the bind in which many feminists find themselves when struggling to actualize their feminist utopia--inclusion entails the exclusion of men, expression results in the silence of critics, and power yields the disempowerment of dissenters. With a keen ear for irony and a deft ability to puncture pretense, Patai writes with verve about some of our feminist pieties and their consequences.
LC Classification Number
LC197.P37 2008

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