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Feminism and the Academy |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 5/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,535 Words, 16,646 Characters |
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PROFESSING FEMINISM
Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies
Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge
New York: Basic Books, 1994
235 pp., $24.00
Women's studies: an academic discipline or feminism's beachhead within the academy? Advocates claim it is both and see no contradiction between the two. For them, women's studies is properly the academic arm of feminism, and, as such, is necessarily political. But then, those who most passionately defend women's studies consider all academic disciplines political and aimed at the devaluation and marginalization of women. Women's studies exists to redress the wrongs that the academy, the alleged guardian of "male" culture, has perpetrated upon women. That this sweeping denunciation of the academic life and value...
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...f feminism cannot be resolved simply by walking regretfully away from women's studies. Thus, the unintended lessons of this important book must be that the distinction between women's studies and feminism cannot easily be maintained; that the "excesses" of women's studies have permeated the movement itself; and that the struggle for equity and justice for women may have to chart a new course.
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