314 INDEXKilpatrick, Dean, 210, 215-16, 217, 223,224King, Dixie, 106Kirwan, William, 119-20Klein, Andrew, 198-99knowing:as act of aggression, 66feminist epistemologies and, 74-78,252male vs. female ways of, 175"separate" vs. "connected," 67Koch, Ed, 108Kolodny, Annette, 29, 81-82, 86, 129Koppel, Ted, 186Koss, Mary, 210-15, 217, 222, 223-24,234Kramer, Rita, 177Krentz, Jayne Ann, 267-68Kuehl, Sheila, 189, 190, 191-92, 203-4,222Labor Bureau, 236Lamm, Richard, 128Landers, Ann, 12Lasch, Christopher, 153-54law degrees, 238Lee, Denise, 45Lefkowitz, Mary, 131, 132, 275Lehman, Betsy, 48Lehrman, Karen, 90, 275Leo, John, 175-76, 223Lerner, Gerda, 51, 55, 69lesbians, 37, 265battery among, 199-200Lessing, Doris, 131, 132, 133Levin, Margarita, 73Levin, Richard, 133-34Lewis, Jennifer, 112LeWitt, Sol, 270"Lifetime Magazine," 186Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 59-60Lindbergh, Charles, 59Lindsey, Michael, 191, 192, 208Lingua Franca, 271-72linguistic reform, 50linguistic reversal, 112Lionhearted, 110-11Lipset, Seymour Martin, 128"lipstick lesbians," 265Lipsyte, Robert, 189, 190literature, 54, 56, 61standards of greatness in, 64-65Lockheed, Marlaine, 167logic, 65-66, 71Longenecker, Marlene, 124-25Los Angeles Daily Journal, 222Los Angeles Times, 158Louis, Deborah, 12-13Lovenheim, Barbara, 234-36Lowe, Miss (teacher), 170-71Ludington, Sybil, 58Lukerman, Fred, 114, 115Lutz, Frank, 61-62Lyle, Katy, 181McClary, Susan, 28McClintock, Barbara, 72McCormack, Robert, 177McDowell, Jeanne, 14McGrory, Brian, 48McGrory, Mary, 194Mcintosh, Peggy, 62, 65, 67-69, 79, 81,118-19, 120, 121, 123, 127Wellesley Report and, 173-74, 175-76McKee, Alice, 141, 158, 185MacKinnon, Catharine, 25, 45, 66, 210,223-24, 231, 272McLeod, Mary, 177McNaron, Toni, 117"MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour," 39Maguigan, Holly, 207Mahler, Gustav, 28Mann, Judy, 154-55, 201March of Dimes, 13-15, 17, 201, 207Marcus, Jane, 20Marcus, Ruth Barcan, 132, 135Marcuse, Herbert, 23, 202Marks, Elaine, 64marriage, well-being and, 251-52Martin, Amanda, 110-11Martin, Del, 206-7Martinka, Laurie, 47Marx, Karl, 23, 202, 229Maryland, University of, 44-45, 119-20,121-22, 127master's degrees, 160-61, 238Masters, Kim, 45mathematics, 71denigration of vertical approaches to,174-75gender gap in, 158, 160, 161, 162-63,174-75, 178, 180Japanese children's achievements in,179-80SAT scores in, 176-77, 178Mattheis, Floyd, 179, 180
INDEX 315May, Alberta, 130medical degrees, 238Mednick, Martha, 153Meeting at the Crossroads (Gilligan), 154Meizlish, Deborah, 94Memphis State University, 98-99menstruation, 103-4Merkowitz, David, 161Miami University, 94-95Michigan, University of, 93-94, 272Mickley, Diane, 12Middle Tennessee State University, 122-124Mikulski, Barbara, 147, 159Mill, John Stuart, 259Millett, Kate, 23Millican, Michael, 108Mills College, 36, 91Minnesota, sexual harassment policies forchildren in, 46Minnesota, University of, 91, 98-99, 104,113-15, 129complaints about courses at, 102-3rape crisis center at, 220-21Scandinavian studies affair at, 114-15Minnich, Elizabeth, 58, 63-64, 65, 79,81, 86, 120Mirabella, 193, 200, 253Mischler, William, 114, 115Mismeasure oj Woman, The (Tavris), 152-153misogyny:battery and, 199rape as manifestation of, 222-23, 225,226Mitchell, Linda, 189, 191-92Mitchell, Maria, 58Modern Language Association, 116Montreal, University of, 26Moore, Dennis Damon, 127moral reasoning, 152-54Morgenson, Gretchen, 236Morning After, The (Roiphe), 214, 219Moses, Yolanda, 76, 80Mother Jones, 90Motherself (Rabuzzi), 26-27Mott, Lucretia, 33Mount Holyoke College, 91, 126Moving into Adolescence (Simmons), 144Ms., 54rape survey conducted by, 210-15,217, 222, 223-24Ms. Foundation, 136"Take Our Daughters to Work Day"sponsored by, 154-56Mullen, Patricia, 114, 115multiculturalism, 76, 80-81, 83-86Mundy, Liza, 271-72Munson, Lynne, 103Murdoch, Iris, 131, 132Murphy, Eddie, 111-12music, 28, 62Musil, Caryn McTighe, 53, 124-25, 127,131Mussell, Kay, 245-46Muybridge, Eadweard, 270Naked Maja, The (Goya), 270-71Narbikova, Valerya, 40Nasar, Sylvia, 238-39, 242National Assessment of EducationProgress Tests (NAEP), 160National Association of Scholars (NAS),128, 129, 131National Center for Health Statistics, 12National Coalition Against DomesticViolence, 193-94, 195-96National Council for Research on <strong>Women</strong>,116, 159-60, 231National Council on Self-Esteem, 140National Education Association, 93National Institute of Mental Health(NIMH), 194, 250-51, 252National Lesbian Convention, 30National Organization of <strong>Women</strong> (NOW),45, 136, 181, 182-83National <strong>Women</strong>'s Studies Association(NWSA) 511992 conference of, 29-33, 53, 79, 91-92National <strong>Women</strong>'s Study, 210, 215-16,217, 223Native Americans, 60-61, 80NBC, 170-72, 190, 191NEA Today, 146Nebraska, University of, 271"New Agenda of <strong>Women</strong> for HigherEducation, The," 125New Amazons, 40New <strong>Feminism</strong>, see gender feministsNew Hampshire, University of, 115-16New Jersey Project, 54, 66, 82-83Newsweek, 212, 237New York, 218-19New Yorker, 133, 261New York Review of Books, 132
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