Women's Studies on Trial

Mary Loeffelholz; Sara Munson Deats; Lagretta Tallent Lenker; Daphne Patai; Noretta Koertge

doi:10.2307/378541

College English Jan 1996

Women's Studies on Trial

Mary Loeffelholz ; Sara Munson Deats ; Lagretta Tallent Lenker ; Daphne Patai ; Noretta Koertge

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I hese two books have very different stories to tell about the state of feminism in the American academy. The story told in Professing Feminism is already notorious beyond the academy; Gender and Academe will almost certainly never circulate so widely. Together, though, these books imply more than either does alone about how centrally academic feminism figures in current struggles over the nature of academic work and the policing of the academy's borders. Professing Feminism, according to its authors, is an inquiry... concentrated on feminism as it is practiced in Women's Studies at colleges and universities (xvii). Daphne Patai, a literary scholar, and Noretta Koertge, a historian of science, insist that their inquiry is an inside critique, aimed at calling academic feminism back from what they diagnose as its current ills to its liberal origins. We are feminists and.. . friends of feminism, they write in their Postscript, feminists arguing from within feminism about the means for achieving the basic goal of the liberation of women from all that impedes their ability to lead full and productive lives (218). Their methods of inquiry draw on the feminist models of ethnography and

Journal: College English
Published: 1996-01-01
DOI: 10.2307/378541
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