What Price Utopia? - Essays on Ideological Policing, Feminism, and Academic Affairs (Paperback)

This volume brings together for the first time more than two dozen of Daphne PataiOs incisive and at times satirical essays dealing with the academic and intellectual orthodoxies of our time. Patai draws on her years of experience in an increasingly bizarre academic world, where a stifling politicization threatens genuine teaching and learning. Addressing the rise of feminist dogma, the domination of politics over knowledge, the shoddy thinking and moralizing that hide behind identity politics, and the degradation of scholarship, her essays offer a resounding defense of liberal values. Patai takes aim at the unctuous and also dangerous posturing that has brought us restrictive speech codes, harassment policies, and a vigilante atmosphere, while suppressing plain speaking about crucial issues. But these trenchant essays are not limited to academic life, for the ideas and practices popularized there have spread far beyond campus borders. Included are two new pieces written especially for this volume, one on the bullying tactics of a famous feminist and the other on Islamic fundamentalism.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	February 2008
Authors:	Daphne Patai
Dimensions:	227 x 153 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-2227-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-7425-2227-X
Barcode:	9780742522275

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