Is romance more important to women in college than grades are? Why do so many women enter college with strong academic backgrounds and firm career goals but leave with dramatically scaled-down ambitions? Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart expose a pervasive "culture of romance" on campus: a high-pressure peer system that propels women into a world where their attractiveness to men counts most.
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This well-documented book, the result of a 10-year study, reveals that gifted, motivated college women often scale down career aspirations in order to marry and strive for physical beauty at the expense of education.
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This ethnographic study by two sociocultural anthropologists explores why bright, highly motivated young women fail to fulfill their academic and career goals. Through interviews and field observations, the researchers documented the reactions of 23 female students to their collegiate experiences, focusing on school assignments, dating practices, friendships, and family ties. Analysis of the data reveals the influence of a persuasive peer-community that links a woman's esteem to her attractiveness to male associates. So strong is this emphasis on romantic success that some of the women, in striving to accommodate themselves to the cultural standard, made decisions that altered their educational paths and resulted in their assuming subordinate societal roles. Although somewhat repetitive, this book probes a pervasive yet little-examined aspect of gender relations. An important work for academic and feminist collections.
- Carol A. McAllister, Coll. of William and Mary Lib., Williamsburg, Va.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Carol A. McAllister, Coll. of William and Mary Lib., Williamsburg, Va.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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In 1979 the United States National Institute of Education (NIE) wanted to know why so few women were becoming scientists or mathematicians. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In 1979 the United States National Institute of Education (NIE) wanted to know why so few women were becoming scientists or mathematicians. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
enacting gender relations, sexual auction block, exclusive heterosexual relationships, ethnographic sample, culturally constructed world, interpersonal politics, peer culture, gender status quo, reproduction theory, peer system, sorority women, feminine attractiveness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Miss August, Adrienne Rich, Julie Brown, West Indian New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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