316 INDEXNew York State Education Department, 140New York Times, 20, 28-29, 80, 83, 137,139, 143, 152, 158, 185, 189, 193,225, 234, 238-39, 268, 270New York Times Book Review, 234-36New York Times Magazine, 222"Nightline," 186Nikolayeva, Olesya, 391984 (Orwell), 97-98North Carolina, University of, 272Northwestern, 103Nye, Andrea, 24Nyhan, David, 48Oakland Tribune, 190Oberlin College, 134objectivity, denial of possibility of, 97-98,109, 114Office of Educational Research andImprovement (OERI), 178Old Dominion University, 189, 190, 192,233Old <strong>Feminism</strong>, see equity feministsOlenick, Michael, 102Olsen, Tillie, 89O'Neill, June, 239, 241oppression:assumptions about, in feministclassroom, 99epistemic advantage supposedlyconferred by, 74-75Ortiz, Bonnie, 270Orwell, George, 97-98, 259Ozick, Cynthia, 131, 132, 133Package, Anne, 47Paffenroth, Kim, 107Paglia, Camille, 133, 134, 218, 222, 264-265, 274Paley, Grace, 39Palmer, Thomas, 65, 185Parade, 154-55Parrot, Andrea, 220patriarchy, 242-43, 262battery and, 188-89, 194, 199, 200,202disdain for hapless victims of, 256-58rape associated with, 223, 225self-surveillance in, 230, 231struggle against, in feminist classroom,88, 89, 91, 95, 96, 100Pauley, Jane, 170-72PBS, 168-69, 170pedagogy, see classroom, feminist;curriculum transformation; educationPennsylvania State College, 110-11Pennsylvania State University, 270-71Peters, Regina, 112Petersen, Anne, 144-45pharmacy, 238-39Phi Deltan Kappan, 163, 164Phillips, Stone, 170, 172philosophy, 126classical, 71feminist epistemologies and, 74-78,252of science, 71-73Piercy, Marge, 268-69Pittsburgh, University of, 272Plato, 41Pleck, Elizabeth, 205-6Pogash, Carol, 237Pointer, The, 165-66political correctness, 253-54, 274satirization of, 110-11Pollitt, Katha, 214Popper, Sir Karl, 96pregnant women, battery of, 13, 195Princeton University, 219prison rape, 225Psychiatric Disorders in America, 250, 251psychological abuse, 216Psychological Bulletin, 251-52Quindlen, Anna, 201, 253Rabuzzi, Kathryn Allen, 26-27racism, coupling of sexism and, 99, 108Racism and Sexism, 108Ramstad, Jim, 212rape, 55, 88, 100, 188, 209-26, 262-63all men viewed as capable of, 44-45allocation of public funds related to,219-21as civil rights issue, 224as crime of gender bias, 224, 225date, 44, 47, 218, 220, 234expanded definition of, 211, 212-16,217gender feminists' agenda and, 222-23government statistics on, 210-11, 223Harris poll on, 209-10, 216-17, 223as manifestation of misogyny, 222-23,225, 226Ms. Report on, 210-15, 217, 222, 223-224
INDEX 317in prison, 225researchers generating low numbers for,217-18supposed crisis of, on college campuses,212, 218-22violence in America society and, 223,225-26rape crisis centers, 219, 220-21rationality, 65-66, 71Ravitch, Diane, 61, 171-72, 238,275Rawlings, Gail, 221Reason, 237Reich, Robert, 254religious fundamentalism, 260-61Removing Bias, 130Rendell, Steven, 191Renzetti, Claire, 199-200"Report to the Professions," 89resentment, 41-49climate of, at Boston Globe, 47-49collective guilt and, 42, 43, 44-47victimization feelings and, 42Reuters, 248Review of Research in Education, 164, 166Revolution from Within (Steinem), 11, 12,146-47Richards, Ann, 33, 147Richards, Janet Radcliffe, 27righteous indignation, 41-42Ringle, Ken, 15, 190-91, 192, 208Robison, Chris, 271Robson, Philip, 142Roe, Sam, 213, 214-15, 217, 218, 219-221, 224Roiphe, Katie, 214, 219, 222, 274-75role models, 59, 132romance, 257, 259, 262-63, 264, 265-268romance novels, 245-46, 267-68Romer, Roy, 139Roosevelt, Eleanor, 20Rorty, Richard, 229Rose, Hilary, 74-75Rosenstone, Professor, 94Rosser, Sue, 72Rothenberg, Paula, 32, 66, 81, 82, 86,108, 134Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 153Ruddick, Sarah, 20"rule of thumb" story, 203-7Russia, women poets and novelists from,38-40Rutgers University, 88, 89, 90, 98-99Ruthchild, Géraldine, 55Sadker, Myra and David, 139, 161-62,163-66, 168-73data-gathering techniques of, 164-65,169-70media appearances of, 168-69, 170-171, 172-73Sandler, Bernice, 46San Francisco Chronicle, 158, 197, 250Santa Monica City College, 128-29Sartre, Jean-Paul, 23, 27Sattel, Sue, 46Saxonhouse, Arlene, 94scare quotes, 66Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 84-85Schmitz, Betty, 119, 120-21, 122, 125,130-31Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), 176-78,179schools, see classroom, feminist; collegesand universities; curriculumtransformation; education; women'sstudies coursesSchroeder, Patricia, 138, 159, 162, 201, 229Schuster, Marilyn R., 69, 81, 96, 109, 116Schuster, Sharon, 139, 140, 141, 149,157, 177-78science, 64, 66, 136, 176, 180challenge to objectivity of, 109denigration of vertical approaches to,174-75gender feminist critique of, 71-73, 83gender gap in, 158, 160, 161, 174-75,178women's supposed epistemic advantagein, 74-75Science, 179, 180Science News, 143, 154Scruton, Roger, 96Scully, Diana, 44Seidel, Kathleen Gilles, 245-46, 267self-esteem, 16, 137-56, 181, 247AAUW study on, 137-52, 154, 157,253; see also "Shortchanging Girls,Shortchanging America"academic performance and, 149-51books on, 140concept of, 142scientific study of, 142-43"Take Our Daughters to Work Day"and, 154-56
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