Educated in Romance

Women, Achievement, and College Culture

Author: Dorothy C. Holland
Secondary Author: Margaret A. Eisenhart
ISBN: 9780226349442

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.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publish Date: 1992-04-15

Subjects: Education / General, Education / Higher, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women in Academia)