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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together for the first time more than two dozen of Daphne PataiOs serious and sometimes satirical essays dealing with the academic and intellectual orthodoxies of our time.
Trade ReviewFor twenty years, Daphne Patai, whose awareness of these bizarre phenomena grew out of her own bitter experience with the seamy side of women's studies, has been a courageous contrarian voice, challenging the anti-intellectualism and the old fashioned power-lust that the ethos of "politically committed" teaching and scholarship has visited on campus life. The essays in What Price Utopia? fully display the range and vigor of Patai's arguments and testify to the enduring strength of the liberal ideals of intellectual freedom and the inviolable sanctity of private life. She brings the good news that the best of the Enlightenment still lives if only we have the guts to defend it against the sneers of its trendy enemies. -- Norman Levitt, Rutgers University, author of Higher Superstition and Prometheus Bedeviled
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Fading Face of Humanism Part 2 Utopia for Whom? Chapter 3 The Struggle for Feminist Purity Threatens the Goals of Feminism Chapter 4 What Price Utopia? Chapter 5 There Ought to be a Law Chapter 6 Justice Comes to U. Mass. Chapter 7 Feminism and the Future Chapter 8 Third Thoughts about Orwell? Chapter 9 Letter to a Friend: On Islamic Fundamentalism Part 10 Women's Words Chapter 11 Who's Calling Whom "Subaltern"? Chapter 12 When Method Becomes Power Chapter 13 Sick and Tired of Scholars' Nouveau Solipsism Chapter 14 Domesticating Tranquility Chapter 15 Will the Real Feminists in Academe Please Stand Up? Chapter 16 Whose Truth? Iconicity and Accuracy in the World of Testimonial Literature Part 17 Heterophobia Chapter 18 Heterophobia: The Feminist Turn Against Men Chapter 19 Politicizing the Personal Chapter 20 Do They Have To Be Wrong? On Writing About Rape Chapter 21 Women on Top Chapter 22 MacKinnon as Bully Part 23 Academic Affairs Chapter 24 Why Not a Feminist Overhaul of Higher Education? Chapter 25 Speak Freely, Professor—Within the Speech Code Chapter 26 The Great Tattling Scare on Campus Chapter 27 Academic Affairs Chapter 28 You Say Social Justice, I Say Political Censorship Chapter 29 Feminist Pedagogy Reconsidered Chapter 30 On Writing Theory's Empire (with Will H. Corral)
