318 INDEXSeligman, Daniel, 177Senate, U.S., 25Seneca Falls convention (1848), 33-35Seventeen, 181-84Sewall, Gilbert, 61sex/gender feminism, see gender feministssex objects, men vs. women as, 264-65sexual desire, 231sexual harassment, 47charged in academia, 93-94, 114-16,270-71defense guarding and, 110Harris poll on, 184-86by juveniles, 46Wellesley study on, 181-84sexuality, 46, 112, 257, 262-63, 264-65Sexual Personae (Paglia), 133Sexual Politics (Millett), 23Shakespeare, William, 133-34Shalala, Donna, 248, 249, 254Sharp, Patricia, 110Sheffield, Carole J., 87-88Shoenberg, Nara, 213, 214-15, 217, 218,219-21, 224"Shortchanging Girls, ShortchangingAmerica," 137-52, 154, 157, 253AAUW promotion of, 139-40, 141,147-48African-Americans' responses in, 149-150congressional response to, 138, 151critical responses to, 140, 142-45dubious aspects of, 138, 145-51hard data for, 141-42, 145, 148media response to, 137, 140, 146questions asked in, 145-46summary of findings in, 141siblings, violence among, 194Silva, Donald, 115-16Silver, Brenda, 21Simmons, Roberta, 143-44, 145Simon, Rita, 132Simpson, Allen, 115SLOPs (self-selected listener opinionpolls), 183-84Smeal, Eleanor, 30, 31, 42Smith, Barbara, 81Smith, Beverly, 81Smith, TomW., 183, 186Smith, William Kennedy, 25Smith College, 36-38, 60, 91Snowe, Olympia, 159social sciences, 54, 56, 59, 61Society for <strong>Women</strong> in Philosophy (SWIP),262Sommers, Fred, 128Sommers, Tamler, 237-38Sontag, Susan, 132"Sonya Live," 204"Southern <strong>Women</strong>: Black and White," 89-90Sowell, Thomas, 98Spiller, Hortense, 40sports, 160standpoint theory, 74-75Stanton, Domna, 40Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 22, 24, 25, 33,34, 35, 77, 221Stark, Evan, 201-2Stein, Nan, 46, 181-84, 186Steindam, Sharon, 168-69, 171Steinem, Gloria, 11, 12, 21, 22, 146-47,149, 154-55, 188-89, 210, 259,260, 261Steinfels, Peter, 80Steinmetz, Suzanne K., 200Stevenson, Harold, 151, 179, 180, 181Stiles, Joan, 191Stimpson, Catharine, 21, 39-40, 66, 69-70,81Storm, Matt, 48Stratton, Peter, 107-8Straumanis, Joan, 104 'Straus, Murray A., 194-96, 197, 198,200, 203Strauss, Richard, 28Student Body, The (Balk), 272Stumhofer, Nancy, 270-71suicide, 161Super Bowl Sunday, battery on, 15, 189-192, 203Takaki, Ronald, 83-86, 108"Take Our Daughters to Work Day," 154-156Tal, Kali, 100-101"Talk of the Nation," 168-69, 170Tavris, Carol, 152-53Taylor, Harriet, 22, 259, 262-63Taylor, Humphrey, 247, 249, 252-53teacher attention, 162, 163-68academic achievement and, 165, 166, 167lack of scholarly articles on, 163-64teaching, viewed as form ofindoctrination, 95-96, 97-98Tennessee Board of Regents, 122, 124
INDEX 319textbooks, 108for women's studies courses, 79-80,87-88, 104, 203Thernstrom, Abigail, 107Thernstrom, Stephan, 85, 86thinking, vertical vs. lateral, 67Thirty-Nine Steps, The, 105, 106Thomas, Clarence, 25Thomas, Dawn, 165-66Thomas, Mario, 130, 155Thought and Action, 93Tiger, Lionel, 46-47Tikkun, 268Time, 13, 14, 158, 193, 198, 201, 204,207, 217, 236Tobin, K., 167Tokyo University, 179Toledo Blade, 213, 214-15, 217, 218,219-21, 224Tolstaya, Tatyana, 40transformationism, see curriculumtransformationTransformations, 86Trebilcot, Joyce, 50, 66, 92, 265Trudeau, Garry, 172Truely, Walteen Grady, 159Tufts University, 105-6Tush, Susan, 89-90"20/20," 45, 244UCLA Higher Education ResearchInstitute, 160-61Understanding Sexual Violence (Scully), 44Uprooted, The (Handlin), 84US. News & World Report, 175-76Vance, Carol, 272Van Dyne, Susan R., 69, 81, 96, 109,116Van Gelder, Lindsy, 265Vanity Fair, 45Vassar College, 44, 104, 112Vaughan, Hester, 35Vendler, Helen, 135veterinary medicine, 238-39victimhood, 42, 88, 89, 244-45violence:of American society, 223, 225-26domestic, see batteryViolence Against <strong>Women</strong> Act (1993), 212,221, 224-25Violent Betrayal (Renzetti), 199-200Virginia Polytechnic, 130Virginia Slims polls, 237Vitz, Paul, 61Walker, Lawrence, 152Walker, Lenore, 189, 191, 192Wall Street Journal, 197Walters, Barbara, 244, 245Walters, Suzanna, 245Walz, Evelyn, 249Walzer, Michael, 230war, 56, 58-59War Against <strong>Women</strong>, The (French), 19, 27Ward, Janie Victoria, 150, 154Washington, Martha, 59Washington Post, 15, 190-91, 194, 197,204Washington State Board of Education,130Wattenberg, Daniel, 45Weight Watchers, 229, 233, 258Weiner, Jerry, 186well-being, Harris/Commonwealth surveyon, 246-54Wellesley College, 91Wellesley College Center for Research on<strong>Women</strong>, 16, 127, 231harassment survey of, 181-84Wellesley Report, 157-81AAUW promotion of, 158attention gap claimed in, 162, 163-68bureaucratic changes recommended in,178-79congressional response to, 158-60,168, 181data contradictory to findings of, 160-161, 162-63, 165, 167, 177, 178Mcintosh's contributions to, 173-74,175-76media response to, 158Ravitch's remarks on, 171-72Sadkers'studies and, 161-62, 163-66,168-73SAT scores and, 176-78traditional curriculum denigrated in,173-76Whitehead, Caroline, 14, 17Whitney Museum, 269-70"Wife-Battering in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica" (Pleck), 205-6William Paterson College, 134Williams, Sue, 269Winfrey, Oprah, 172Withers, Josephine, 45
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