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NOTES 28730. Doris Lessing, "Women's Quests," lecture delivered February 4, 1991. Reprinted inPartisan Review 59, no. 2 (1992): 190, 192.31. Teresa Ebert, "The Politics of the Outrageous," Women's Review of Books, October1991, p. 12.32. New York, March 4, 1991, p. 30.33. PMLA (January 1989): 78.34. Paula Goldsmid, panel discussion, "Toward a Feminist Transformation of the Academy"(Chicago: Great Lakes Colleges Association, November 2-4, 1979), p. 54.35. Paula Rothenberg, "Teaching 'Racism and Sexism in a Changing America,' " RadicalTeacher, November 1984, p. 2.Chapter 7: The Self-Esteem Study1. New York Times, January 9, 1991, p. B6.2. Chicago Tribune, September 29, 1991, p. 1.3. Boston Globe, January 20, 1991, p. A21.4. Testimony of Rep. Patricia Schroeder on the Gender Equity in Education Act beforethe House Education and Labor Committee Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary,and Vocational Education, April 21, 1993.5. "Summary: Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America" (Washington, D.C.: AmericanAssociation of University Women, 1991), p. 8.6. Looking more closely at the findings, 1 saw that in many areas girls were moreambitious than the boys: more high school girls than boys aspire to be high-levelprofessionals and business executives (42 percent of girls vs. 27 percent of boys).The number-one career goal of high school girls is lawyer: 71 percent would like tobe lawyers, and 53 percent think they will achieve this goal. For boys, the mostpopular career ambition is sports star: 70 percent aspire to it, and 49 percent thinkthey will actually succeed. See the AAUW/Greenberg-Lake Full Data Report (Washington,D.C.: Greenberg-Lake, 1990), pp. 12-13.7. Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America, video distributed by the American Associationof University Women, Washington, D.C., 1991.8. New York Times Magazine, January 7, 1990, p. 23.9. "A Call to Action: Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America" (Washington, D.C.:American Association of University Women, 1991), p. 5.10. Ibid., p. 5.11. The original impetus for the self-esteem movement in the schools seems to comefrom studies done in the 1940s by Kenneth and Mamie Clark, showing that blackchildren (ages three and seven) preferred white dolls. This was taken as a measure oftheir low self-esteem. The Clark studies have been challenged many times over.Adolescent psychologist Susan Harter gives seven references to recent books andarticles disputing the Clark findings. Susan Harter, "Self-Identity and Development,"in S. Shirley Feldman and Glen R. Elliott, eds., At the Threshold (Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press, 1990), p. 369. Gloria Steinem is apparently unaware of themore recent findings and still cites the doll studies as authoritative. See Steinem,Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (Boston: Little, Brown, 1992), p. 221.12. "Hey, I'm Terrific," Newsweek, February 17, 1992.13. "Promoting Self-Esteem in Young Women: A Manual for Teachers" (Albany, N.Y.:State Education Department, 1989), p. 3.