310 INDEXcolleges and universities (cont.)faculty appointments in, 119, 126-27,129, 133feminist control of bureaucracies in,118-19, 136gender-feminized, general effect of, 91intolerance in, 107-13, 270-73percentage of males vs. females in, 160SAT scores as predictors of performancein, 176-77supposed rape crisis at, 212, 218-22tenure system in, 242see also classroom, feminist; curriculumtransformation; education; women'sstudies courses; specific colleges anduniversitiesCollier, Michael, 190Columbia University, 19, 20, 218-19Comins, Catherine, 44Commentary, 177common law, battery and, 204, 205, 206-207Commonwealth Fund, 16, 196-98, 216,246-54Congress, U.S., 138, 141, 147, 151, 158-160, 168, 172, 181, 201, 224, 273Connecticut College, 133consciousness raising, 23in feminist classroom, 88, 89, 90, 92conspiracy theories, 227-28, 232Constitution, U.S., 61Cook, Blanche Wiesen, 20Cooner, Liz, 249Copernicus, 117Cornell University, 127Corry, Maureen, 13Costrell, Robert, 174Council on Foundations, 158Courage to Question, The, 131Cowboys Are My Weakness (Houston), 269Coyner, Sandra, 124-25Crosby, Faye, 36-37, 38, 153cultural literacy, 61-62cultural pluralism, 76, 80-81, 83-86culture, as largely male achievement, 54-55curriculum transformation, 51-73, 116,119-36administrative support for, 109appeal of reform vs., 78-79arts and, 62-65bureaucratic control and, 118-19criticism not tolerated in, 131, 132,134, 135cultural literacy and, 61-62disparity of men's and women's culturalachievements and, 54-55faculty hiring process and, 119, 126-127, 129faculty reeducation and, 121financial support for, 53, 82, 119-20,121, 124, 127history and, 56-62, 68-69as intellectual revolution, 51-52lack of resistance to, 134-36literature and, 64-65minority women's critiques of, 79-80,82multiculturalism and, 83-86opposition to, 128, 131-34organizational support for, 124-25, 127Parsippany conference on (1993), 54,81-86, 92phase theories of, 67-70, 121, 123,173philosophy and, 71, 126rationality and, 65-66reasonable correction of record vs., 56Schmitz's handbook for, 121science and, 83standards of greatness and, 63-65student evaluations and, 129tacit cooperation of governmentpersonnel in, 130-31Wellesley Report and, 173-76Curtis, Michael, 263-64Daly, Mary, 252Damon, William, 145, 152"Dateline," 170-72date rape, 44, 47, 218, 220, 234Davidson, Terry, 207Davis, Angela, 108day care, 237debating clubs, 175Declaration of Independence, 34, 35, 62Decter, Midge, 275defense guarding, 110democracies, 258-60respect for people's preferences in,258-59self-surveillance in, 229-30depression, 16, 216Harris/Commonwealth survey on, 246-254marriage and, 251-52yearly prevalence of, 250
INDEX 311Derrick, Jacques, 113-14desires, "overhauling" of, 257, 259, 263,264, 265-68Detroit News, 197Devore, Adam, 94Didion, Joan, 132dieting, 228, 229, 231, 233-34Digest oj Educational Statistics, 161Dines, Gail, 193, 222Discipline and Punish (Foucault), 229divorce, economic effects of, 236Dobisky, Frank, 190-91Dobisky Associates, 189, 190-91doctoral degrees, 160-61domestic violence, see batteryDonaldson, Stephen, 225Donner Foundation, 126"Doonesbury," 172Down syndrome, 235-36Driscoll, Jack, 48Duke University, 130Dunn, Thomas, 12Dworkin, Andrea, 224, 272Dziech, Billie, 185earnings, gender gap in, 237-42eating disorders, 11-12, 15, 188, 233, 269Edelman, Lee, 105-6Edington, K., 92-93education, 50-187, 238-39AAUW study on gender bias in, 16,157-81; see also Wellesley Reportappeal of transformationism in, 78-79feminist epistemologies and, 74-78,252indoctrination vs., 96-97self-esteem and, 138, 149-51surveys on sexual harassment in, 181-186in U.S. vs. abroad, 163, 179-81see also classroom, feminist; collegesand universities; curriculumtransformation; women's studiescoursesEducational Testing Service (ETS), 162-163, 180Education Department, U.S., 159, 160,161, 164, 178Education Digest, 151"Education Is Not Enough," 202Education Week, 182elitism, gender feminists charged with,79-81Ellman, Mary, 66Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 132emergency room admissions, battery and,201-3Engels, Friedrich, 202engineering, gender gap in, 174-75Enlightenment, 22-23, 51epistemologies, 74-78, 252gynocentric, dangers of, 76-77, 78standpoint theory and, 74-75Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 243-44equity feminists, 22, 53, 274in academia, 51, 55epistemologies and, 77, 78gender feminists vs., 134, 135, 230, 237rape as viewed by, 224-25Erickson, Lois, 114"Eurocentrism" charges, 83-84Evergreen State College, 125Ewing, Charles Patrick, 190excellence, male conceptions of, 64-65extracurricular activities, 160Failing at Fairness (M. and D. Sadker),162, 164Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting(FAIR), 189, 191-92Faludi, Susan, 42, 45, 158, 212, 223,227-29, 234-44, 245, 251, 254,255earnings disparity cited by, 237-42errors attributed to, 234-37, 238-42feminist critics derided by, 243-44self-surveillance postulated by, 228,229, 232Family Violence Prevention Fund, 203Fanon, Franz, 23, 202fantasies, "overhauling" of, 257, 263, 264,265-68Fasting Girls (Brumberg), 11-12fatherhood, 255-56Fay, Elizabeth, 101-2Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 195rape statistics of, 209, 210, 223Fee, Elizabeth, 66femininity, 230, 231, 234Femininity and Domination (Bartky), 257feminism:college women's dissociation from, 18Old vs. New, 22-25see also equity feminists; genderfeminists; women's movement;specific topics
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