The War Against Boys

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The question that nags at me is: why does this stuff get published, flawed
as it is?  I'm amazed by what Hoff-Summers, Paglia, etc. can get into
respectable journals of opinion.  Do they feel they have to publish some
anti-feminist work, no matter how bad it is?

Judy Baer
Political Science
Texas A&M

>>Where boys are most at risk is from other boys, not from girls."

>     This may be true, but it does not alter the fact that a great deal of
>feminist writing has been devoted to the idea that "schools shortchange
>girls" - and it this that it seemed we were discussing.

We were discussing Sommer's claim that boys are more at risk than girls,
and her implication that society favors girls. But schools do shortchange
girls in many ways, and often these ways are related to social patterns of
favoring boys: calling on them more, letting them talk longer (as opposed
to cutting girls off), tolerating their interruptions and verbal and
physical assaults on girls, rewarding lesser effort by boys with greater
praise. From what I've read on this list in the last year, overtly sexist
behavior and favoritism toward boys, especially by math and science
instructors, is not a thing of the past. What I experienced decades ago is
still a problem. Where do girls get the idea they aren't supposed to excel
in certain fields? Even ones who are good in those fields...

If you ask me, it's Sommers who is making the selective jumps. What was
written recently about her sneaky method of approaching Gilligan certainly
doesn't inspire confidence in her methods.

Max Dashu    Suppressed Histories Archives
 <maxdashu  @  lanminds.com>

Judy, I doubt if everyone on this list would agree about what counts as the
work that deserves to be published and what counts as work that should not.
Happily, we live in a society with so many venues for publication that all
sorts of things get published. (The alternative is some sort of censorship
or control - and to whom would we all want to hand such power?)  There is
shoddy feminist work and there is shoddy anti-feminist work and everything
in between.  Since Christina Sommers is  not much appreciated by feminists
no matter how solid a given argument that she makes is, I don't think you
should believe that her work is as defective as some have recently said on
this list.  Political passions of all sorts can warp people's judgment.
There's no substitute for reading widely about a given issue.
Daphne

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daphne.patai  @  spanport.umass.edu

The following is an unpublished letter sent by the media watch group FAIR
 > to the Atlantic Monthly.
 >
 > May 22, 2000
 >
 > To the editors:
 >
 > Describing Christina Hoff Sommers, author of May's cover story "Girls
 > Rule,"
 > you wrote, "Sommers's reporting is unsparing and absorbing, her
attention
 > to
 > factual detail scrupulous." You further predicted Sommers's arguments
 > about
 > how Americans educate boys and girls "will surprise, perhaps even
 > astonish,
 > many readers."
 >
 > Readers might be more surprised to learn that Sommers has proven
herself
 > to
 > be more creative than scrupulous when it comes to matters of fact. Her
 > record of academic and journalistic distortions dates back two decades.
 > An
 > early example: When Sommers lobbed a barrage of false statements and
 > unsubstantiated charges about Brookline High School in a 1985 American
 > Scholar article, then-headmaster Dr. Robert McCarthy noted, "The
article
 > contains a host of blatant inaccuracies" so much so that it would have
 > been
 > "unacceptable" as a student's senior paper at his school (The American
 > Scholar, Spring 1985).
 >
 > Sommers work has long been contested by academics, philosophers and
media
 > critics alike. In a comprehensive 1994 review of Sommers' Who Stole
 > Feminism?, media critic John Wilson exposes Sommers' analysis as
resting
 > on
 > "manipulated data, misrepresentation of surveys, exaggeration of
results,
 > abuse of opponents and condemnation of anyone who fails to conform to
her
 > ideological goals." Among many "basic factual mistakes" Wilson points
to
 > is
 > Sommers' claim that the budget of the Department of Health and Human
 > Services is twice that of the Department of Defense, empowering Donna
 > Shalala with more clout than the Pentagon -- when in fact Shalala's
 > departmental budget is less than the DOD's. FAIR's Laura Flanders also
 > documented a host of unsubstantiated charges and misrepresentations of
 > sources peppered throughout Sommers' book but unscrutinized by the
 > mainstream press (Extra!, 9-10/94).
 >
 > Sommers's Atlantic cover story is filled with similar invective and
 > inaccuracy. For instance, she dismisses "research commonly cited to
 > support
 > claims" that girls receive inequitable treatment in school as "riddled
 > with
 > errors," insisting that "almost none of it has been published in
 > peer-reviewed professional journals." But it is Sommers who is in
error:
 > The
 > American Association of University Women's "How Schools Shortchange
 > Girls"
 > -- a widely-cited research review of the gender equity field (and a
 > particular target for Sommers) -- scrutinized results of more than
1,300
 > research studies, the vast majority of which originally appeared in
 > peer-reviewed journals, from sources such as the National Science
 > Foundation
 > and the Department of Education. In addition, "How Schools Shortchange
 > Girls" was itself peer-reviewed several times by noted scholars in the
 > field.
 >
 > Sommers claims a study about classroom treatment of girls and boys
 > conducted
 > by gender equity researchers David and Myra Sadker is "missing -- and
 > meaningless" because David Sadker hasn't provided writers with
print-outs
 > of
 > the text of his approximately 200-page report. In reality, Sadker
 > provides
 > references that would have allowed Sommers to look up the report at any
 > university library.
 >
 > Documenting the full litany of Sommers's misrepresentations would
require
 > more space than a letter to the editor allows. Were any fact-checkers
 > involved in reviewing Sommers's article before it ran as a cover story?
 > Or
 > is fact-checking dispensed with book excerpts, even when those books
are
 > funded in part by ideological interest groups? Sommers is entitled to
her
 > opinion -- but it is never appropriate to package rhetoric as fact. By
 > praising Sommers's questionable invective as the "unsparing" work of a
 > "scrupulous" reporter, The Atlantic has compromised not only accuracy
but
 > the magazine's journalistic reputation.
 >
 >
 > Sincerely,
 >
 > Jennifer L.Pozner
 > Women's Desk Director
 > FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
 > jpozner  @  fair.org
 > 130 W. 25th Street
 > NYC, NY 10001> 212-633-6700 x. 310

For a different point of view, people on this list might want to have
a look at the  article in the Harvard Crimson regarding Christina Sommer's
critcism of Carol Gilligan's work.

 http://www.thecrimson.com/news/article.asp?ref=8056

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daphne.patai  @  spanport.umass.edu

The August Atlantic Monthly has a lengthy response from Gilligan to Hoff
Sommers' criticisms, followed by an even lengthier response from Hoff
Sommers supporting her criticisms, and citing similar ones made by many
other scholars, including (as some of us remember) from way back in a 1986
issue of the feminist journal SIGNS.
DP

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daphne.patai  @  spanport.umass.edu

> The question that nags at me is: why does this stuff get published, flawed
> as it is?  I'm amazed by what Hoff-Summers, Paglia, etc. can get into
> respectable journals of opinion.  Do they feel they have to publish some
> anti-feminist work, no matter how bad it is?

Just one modification, Judy.  These authors never ever publish in peer
reviewed scholarly journals.  Nor, IMHO, could they, as their work may be
heavy on adverbs, but it is light on scholarship.  The fact that magazines
publish it is another matter, for both better and worse.

Michael Kimmel

As a follow-up to the recent thread about (young) women's treatment and
accomplishment in the academic setting, I would like to mention the recent
article, "Addressing Gender Issues in the Engineering Classroom," in Vol.
12.3 of _Feminist Teacher_.  The issues discussed in the article are germane
not only to engineering classes, but to all of our classrooms, and the
authors discuss how anti-feminist backlash affects women faculty as well.

Donna M. Bickford, Ph.D.
dbic6066  @  postoffice.uri.edu
Department of English and Women's Studies Program
University of Rhode Island
Independence Hall
Kingston, RI 02881

These should be fighting words:

>Girls: Rote-learning, Memorization, Hard Work, Technicians simply Reproducing
>knowledge.

Marilyn Grotzky
Auraria Library
mgrotzky  @  carbon.cudenver.edu

My own feeling is that girls are socialized to want approval, which is not
exactly what will help them achieve in the world beyond school.
Competition for jobs, bargaining for salaries, taking over a business,
driving someone else out of business are not things that rate approval for
niceness.  How do we help young women retain the qualities that we value
and still achieve success more easily?  We are going to have to change the
culture as well as methods of education.  We will also have to determine
what qualities we value and want to teach, and where we want the culture to
move and how we want to go about shaping it in order to reach our goals.

This would look like an impossible task except that this is exactly what we
have been consciously doing for the past 30 years and that ours is one of a
series of movements that women have led or participated in overtly or
covertly throughout all the history that I am aware of.

I'll have to find the quote (it's in one of the Political Palate cookbooks,
quoted from elsewhere) -- something about this race is not one that someone
wins and someone loses -- this is a relay race.  I'd like to begin with
that understanding -- that the world we work for is one where everyone can
life in fairness and justice, and the one we leave will bring the next
runners one step closer.

We might begin by recommending to the list visions of achievable utopias
(books, movies, personal visions) that could be shared with students as we
help them develop views of their futures.  We might also look for examples
of women living lives that we admire -- women who are being creative and
imaginative, women who start with little, women who begin with advantages
and use them well.  We also need, I think, not to romanticize them, but to
look at their failures and the price they pay for success, and different
kinds of success.  I think some of the recent biographies of women, because
of their length and completeness, can be useful -- Rage for Fame (Clare
Booth Luce), Appetite for Life (Julia Child) -- there's one about Empress
Frederick of Prussia -- An Unusual Woman?  If students don't have time to
read entire biographies, they might look through them for specific answers
or be assigned particular chapters.

We'll never develop a common view, but the range of our views might help us
develop goals, units, and subtexts for our teaching. Some of this is no
doubt available in syllabus form online.  Specific references would be useful.

When I was teaching remedial students, I asked people on campus to come
speak to my students and explain how they got where they were -- there were
some revelations about mistakes, hitting bottom, moving from one career to
another, personal experiences leading to vocations.  It's useful for
students to know that one may recover from failure and mistakes and to see
how actual people come to make mistakes and then learn to make better
decisions.  I need to begin doing that again.

Marilyn Grotzky
Auraria Library
mgrotzky  @  carbon.cudenver.edu

Michael,

With all due respect, I think you
should reconsider your position on
this one.

The ability to publish in "peer-reviewed"
journals doesn't necessarily prove anything.
Surely you remember the Sokal affair, in which
a much-respected (in some quarters, at least)
academic journal published total gibberish
without realizing it.

Academic journals publish lots of junk. Much of it
is never read by anyone other than the author, and
in some cases, it seems even the author didn't
read it very carefully.

If Christina Hoff Sommers cared about publishing in
refereed journals, I'm quite certain she could manage
to find an outlet.

All the best,

Jim

James H. Steiger
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University of British Columbia
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James H. Steiger <steiger  @  unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:

>If Christina Hoff Sommers cared about publishing in
>refereed journals, I'm quite certain she could manage
>to find an outlet.
<stuff deleted>

She has found such outlets.

Judging from what I found in searches of several 'scholarly' databases,
this appears to be her 'scholarly' publication record:

Record 1 of 8 in The Philosopher's Index (1940 through March 2000)

TITLE: Philosophers Against the Family IN Person to Person.
AUTHOR: SOMMERS,-CHRISTINA-HOFF
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: Temple-Univ-Pr : Philadelphia, 1989
DESCRIPTORS: FAMILY-; FEMINISM-; PERSONAL-RELATIONS
DOCUMENT TYPE: CONTRIBUTION

Record 2 of 8 in The Philosopher's Index (1940 through March 2000)

TITLE: "FILIAL MORALITY" IN "WOMEN AND MORAL THEORY", KITTAY, EVA FEDER
(ED), 69-84.
AUTHOR: SOMMERS,-CHRISTINA-HOFF
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: ROWMAN-LITTLEFIELD : TOTOWA, 1987
ABSTRACT: THE AUTHOR TAKES UP THE QUESTION CONCERNING THE OBLIGATION OF
ADULT CHILDREN TO THEIR PARENTS. SHE SUGGESTS A "DIFFERENTIAL PULL"
MORALITY. DP ALLOWS FOR GREATER CONSIDERATION OF SPECIAL CASES, YET STANDS
ON A MINIMAL DEONTOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE OF NONINTERFERENCE. USING A DP THEORY
OF MORALITY, WE CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF FILIAL OBLIGATION:
FAILURE TO ACT ON THESE DUTIES CAUSES UNWARRANTED INTERFERENCE WITH THE
RIGHTS OF THE MORAL PATIENT, SINCE NEGLECTED PARENTS EXPERIENCE HUMILIATION
AND LOSS OF DIGNITY. (EDITED)
DESCRIPTORS: DEONTOLOGY-; MORAL-SENTIMENT; PARENT-; UTILITARIANISM-
DOCUMENT TYPE: CONTRIBUTION

Record 3 of 8 in The Philosopher's Index (1940 through March 2000)

TITLE: RIGHT AND WRONG: BASIC READINGS IN ETHICS.
AUTHOR: SOMMERS,-CHRISTINA-HOFF
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: HARCOURT-BRACE : SAN DIEGO, 1986
ABSTRACT: THE BOOK CONTAINS CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY READINGS ON FOUR
ETHICAL POSITIONS: UTILITARIANISM, KANTIANISM, ETHICAL RELATIVISM, AND
EGOISM. INSTRUCTORS OF COURSES IN APPLIED ETHICS TYPICALLY INITIATE THE
STUDENT INTO THE SUBJECT WITH A GENERAL REVIEW OF ETHICAL THEORY. THIS
COLLECTION IS SUITABLE FOR THAT PURPOSE. ALTERNATIVELY, THE BOOK CAN SERVE
FOR THE ETHICS UNIT IN AN INTRODUCTORY PHILOSOPHY COURSE.
DESCRIPTORS: ETHICAL-THEORY; ETHICS-; MORAL-JUDGMENT; PROBLEM-; TEXTBOOK-
DOCUMENT TYPE: MONOGRAPH

Record 4 of 8 in The Philosopher's Index (1940 through March 2000)

TITLE: ONCE A SOLDIER, ALWAYS A DEPENDENT.
AUTHOR: SOMMERS,-CHRISTINA-HOFF
SOURCE: Hastings-Center-Report. 1986; 16,15-17
ABSTRACT: THE PAPER DISCUSSES THE MORAL VALIDITY OF SPECIAL ENTITLEMENTS
SUCH AS THE BENEFITS OFFERED TO VETERANS THROUGH THE V A SYSTEM; I CONSIDER
AND CRITICIZE BERNARD WILLIAMS' POSITION THAT "THE PROPER GROUND OF
DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICAL CARE IS ILL HEALTH", WHICH LEAVES NO ROOM FOR
SPECIAL ENTITLEMENTS TO CARE. I ARGUE THAT THE ARMED SERVICES ARE
PATERNALISTIC BY NATURE AND SUGGEST THE V A ENTITLEMENT IS ANALOGOUS TO THE
RIGHT TO PARENTAL CARE.
DESCRIPTORS: DEPENDENCY-; MEDICINE-; SOCIAL-PHIL; SOLDIER-
DOCUMENT TYPE: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

Record 5 of 8 in The Philosopher's Index (1940 through March 2000)

TITLE: FILIAL MORALITY.
AUTHOR: SOMMERS,-CHRISTINA-HOFF
SOURCE: Journal-of-Philosophy. 1986; 83,439-456
ABSTRACT: CONTEMPORARY MORALISTS COMMONLY DENY OR TRIVIALIZE THE NOTION OF
FILIAL DUTY. AN ACCOUNT OF SPECIAL OBLIGATIONS TO ONE'S KIN, FRIEND,
COMMUNITY OR COUNTRY PUTS CONSIDERABLE STRAIN ON MAINSTREAM MORAL THEORIES
SUCH AS KANTIANISM AND UTILITARIANISM, THEORIES THAT SEEM BETTER DESIGNED
FOR TELLING WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING FOR EVERYONE IMPARTIALLY THAN FOR
EXPLAINING SOMETHING LIKE FILIAL OBLIGATION. I MAKE THE CASE FOR THE
SPECIAL MORAL RELATIONS AND IN PARTICULAR I ARGUE FOR A TRADITIONAL NOTION
OF FILIAL OBLIGATION.
DESCRIPTORS: DUTY-; ETHICS-; FAMILY-; RELATION-
DOCUMENT TYPE: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

Record 6 of 8 in The Philosopher's Index (1940 through March 2000)

TITLE: VICE AND VIRTUE IN EVERYDAY LIFE: INTRODUCTORY READINGS IN ETHICS.
AUTHOR: SOMMERS,-CHRISTINA-HOFF
PUBLICATION INFORMATION: HARCOURT-BRACE : SAN DIEGO, 1985
ABSTRACT: THIS ANTHOLOGY BRINGS TOGETHER CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY
WRITINGS ON SUCH MATTERS AS COURAGE, WISDOM, COMPASSION, GENEROSITY,
GRATITUDE, HONOR, AND SELF-RESPECT. IT ALSO INCLUDES ESSAYS ON MORAL
FOIBLES SUCH AS HYPOCRISY, SELF-DECEPTION, JEALOUSY, AND NARCISSISM. MORE
STANDARD MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED: CHAPTERS ON THEORIES OF MORAL CONDUCT,
FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM, AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL ISSUES. THE COLLECTION
THEREBY SEEKS TO COMBINE THE VIRTUES OF CURRENT TEXTS ON APPLIED ETHICS
WITH THE VIRTUES OF MORE TRADITIONAL SURVEY TEXTS.
DESCRIPTORS: ABORTION-; ETHICS-; EXISTENTIALISM-; NARCISSISM-; VIRTUE-
DOCUMENT TYPE: MONOGRAPH

Record 7 of 8 in The Philosopher's Index (1940 through March 2000)

TITLE: Where Have All the Good Deeds Gone?
AUTHOR: Sommers,-Christina-Hoff
SOURCE: Free-Inquiry. 1998; 18(1), 54-56
DESCRIPTORS: ACTION-; DEED-; ETHICS-; GOOD-; MARXISM-
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal-Article

Record 8 of 8 in The Philosopher's Index (1940 through March 2000)

TITLE: Feminism and Resentment
AUTHOR: Sommers,-Christina-Hoff
SOURCE: Reason-Papers. 1993; 18, 1-15
DESCRIPTORS: EQUALITY-; FEMINISM-; GENDER-; LIBERALISM-; PATRIARCHY-;
POLITICS-; SEXISM-; SOCIAL-PHIL; WOMEN-
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal-Article

For all I know, the following is also by C H-F:

Record 1 of 1 in The Philosopher's Index (1940 through March 2000)

TITLE: MORAL CONSIDERATION ON ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION (IN POLISH).
AUTHOR: HOFF,-CHRISTINE
SOURCE: Etyka-. 1980; 18,63-76
DESCRIPTORS: ANIMAL-EXPERIMENTATION; ETHICS-
LANGUAGE: POLISH
DOCUMENT TYPE: JOURNAL-ARTICLE

David.

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> Just one modification, Judy.  These authors never ever publish in peer
> reviewed scholarly journals.
<stuff deleted>

I provided some data about Hoff-Sommers.  Here's a bit more:

> Title: THE MORAL DOMAIN: AN INQUIRY INTO ITS EXTENT AND LIMITS.
> Author: HOFF-CHRISTINA-MARIE
> Degree Name: PHD Degree Date: 1979
> School Name: BRANDEIS-UNIVERSITY (0021)
> Number of Pages: 211
> Subject Code: Philosophy (0422)
> Source: VOLUME 40-05A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 2730.

Since Paglia was also named, I'll add that her periodicals publications as
listed in the "scholarly" databases to which I have access are as follows;
unless otherwise indicated, Paglia is listed as the sole author:

*Mitchell, E, Paglia, C Dissenting sex - Conversation with Camille Paglia
INDEX ON CENSORSHIP 1998 NOV-DEC
*Letter from Philadelphia TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 1999 JUL 16
*Overrated & underrated (Most overrated and most underrated feminist)
AMERICAN HERITAGE 1999 MAY-JUN
*Germaine Greer - Untamed shrew NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 1999 MAY 9
*The whole woman NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 1999 MAY 9
*Rock around the clock FORBES 1998 NOV 30
*The 'Birds' SIGHT AND SOUND 1998 OCT
*Homer on film: A voyage through The 'Odyssey', 'Ulysses', 'Helen of Troy',
and 'Contempt' (Critical observations) ARION-A JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND THE
CLASSICS 1997 FAL
*Sex and violence, or nature and art WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW 1997 WIN-SPR
*The Internet & sexual personae FORBES 1996
*PICASSO,PABLO 'GIRL BEFORE A MIRROR' ARTNEWS 1996 JAN
*Ice queen, drag queen NEW REPUBLIC 1996 MAR 4
*MULTIPLE-CHOICE NEW REPUBLIC 1995 NOV 13
*'JUDGE DREDD' - CANNON,D TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 1995 JUL 21
*POPE FICTION NEW REPUBLIC 1994 DEC 26
*'VAMPS AND TRAMPS' - DRESSED FOR EXCESS NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 1994 NOV
20
*MY NIGHT WITH STREISAND - THE WAY SHE WAS NEW REPUBLIC 1994 JUL 18
*JOSIPOVICI, G HAWKES, T PORTER, P STURROCK, J SHOWALTER, E ALTER, R BAYLEY,
J PAGLIA, C SUTHERLAND, J MCGANN, J DERRIDA, J THE RISE OF THEORY, A
SYMPOSIUM - ENGLISH, FRENCH TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 1994 JUL 15
*WHO STOLE FEMINISM NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 1994 JUL 3
*AFTER YOUVE GONE - JACKIE RIDE NEW REPUBLIC 1994 JUN 13
*MADONNA - BLONDE AMBITION - BEGO,M NOTES 1993 SEP
*GARLAND,JUDY - THE SECRET LIFE OF AN AMERICAN LEGEND - SHIPMAN,D NEW YORK
TIMES BOOK REVIEW 1993 JUN 6
*AU ELLERBEE, L FERRARO, G FALUDI, S PAGLIA, C QUINN, S KONNER, J TOPPING, S
HUNTERGAULT, C GOODMAN, E BALLROKEACH, S ALLEN, D WOODHULL, N WILSON, JG
LAWSON, J GORELICK, S IN THE MEDIA, A WOMANS PLACE MEDIA STUDIES JOURNAL
1993 WIN-SPR
*FASHION, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY - DAVIS,F TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
1993 MAY 28
*'DIANA UNCLOTHED' + INACCURACIES AND/OR MISREPRESENTATIONS IN A RECENT
TELEVISION REVIEW TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 1993 APR 2
*MATERIAL GIRLS NATION 1992 AUG 17
*THE PRINCESS AND HER PERSONAE - THE DIANA CULT NEW REPUBLIC 1992 AUG 3
*THE NURSERY-SCHOOL CAMPUS - THE CORRUPTING OF THE HUMANITIES IN THE
UNITED-STATES TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 1992 MAY 22
*THE LAST WORDS - REPLY NEW REPUBLIC 1992 MAY 18
*WOLF PACK NEW REPUBLIC 1992 APR 13
*THE JOY OF PRESBYTERIAN SEX NEW REPUBLIC 1991 DEC 2
*JUNK BONDS AND CORPORATE RAIDERS, ACADEME IN THE HOUR OF THE WOLF ARION-A
JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND THE CLASSICS 1991 SPR
*BRANDO - A LIFE IN OUR TIMES - SCHICKEL,R NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 1991
JUL 21
*NINNIES, PEDANTS, TYRANTS AND OTHER ACADEMICS NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
1991 MAY 5
*GILBERT, SM GUBAR, S BONAPARTE, F PAGLIA, C FEMINISM AND LITERATURE - AN
EXCHANGE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS 1990 AUG 16
*SEX AND VIOLENCE, OR NATURE AND ART WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW 1988 SPR

> Title: SEXUAL PERSONAE: THE ANDROGYNE IN LITERATURE AND ART.
> Author: PAGLIA-CAMILLE-ANNA
> Degree Name: PHD
> Degree Date: 1974
> School Name: YALE-UNIVERSITY (0265)
> Number of Pages: 459
> Subject Code: Literature-General (0401)
> Source: VOLUME 38-06A OF DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL. PAGE 3459.

David.

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Department of Philosophy and Religion
Box 8103
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This is the site for the long and interesting exchange between Gilligan and
Sommers.

 http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/08/letters.htm

D.

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daphne.patai  @  spanport.umass.edu

Jim,

The Sokal example does not serve your argument as well asy you might
like.  His article is what made most of us aware that Social Text was
not a peer reviewed journal after all.

Carole  McCann
Director of Women's Studies
UMBC