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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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出版社周刊评论
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. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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This is a comparative ethnographic study, based on interviews, of two southern universities: the first is a less-than-prestigious and predominantly black institution; the other is a relatively prestigious, large, state university. The focus of the researchers (two white women) was on what women actually do during their college years, and particularly on what happens to women who enter college with relatively high career aspirations. The authors found that a female peer culture emerges that is more important to the women than their academic achievement. This is the "culture of romance" in which women are engaged in continous pursuit of "a high attractiveness rating on the sexual auction block" and strive to snare the most attractive male partner appropriate to their own rating. The study is rich in discussions of theory and in the social psychology of women's ties and of gender relations. Many findings are disturbing, e.g., that the culture maintains that rape is a by-product of a woman's attractiveness rating; that women lower their career aspirations as academic achievements become secondary to romance. The book could have been strengthened by eliminating some repetition. There is a brief, interesting foreword by R.W. Connell, a leading Australian feminist theorist; a methodological appendix; bibliographic references; glossary; and an integrated subject-author index. College, university, and public libraries. -S. Reinharz, Brandeis University
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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. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
Foreword |
Preface |
Part 1 Introduction |
1 Why Study Women's Responses to Schooling? |
2 The Odyssey behind the Case |
Part 2 The Theoretical Framework and Existing Studies |
3 Reproduction Theory and the Gender Status Quo |
4 Questions about Women's Responses to Schooling |
Part 3 The Study |
5 Campus Profiles and an Overview of the Study |
6 Campus Life: The Past and the Present |
Part 4 Gender Relations |
7 Gender Relations Culturally Construed: Romance and Attractiveness |
8 Girlfriends: Fragile Ties with Other Women |
9 Getting into the World of Romance and Attractiveness |
10 Strategic Moves: Postponing, Feigning, and Dropping Out of Romance |
11 Gender Politics and Peer Divisions |
Part 5 Academics |
12 Schoolwork for What? |
13 Pathways to Marginal Careers |
14 Women's Discontents with the University |
Part 6 Conclusions |
15 Unfinished Lives |
Appendix: Research Design and Methods |
Notes |
References |
Glossary |
Index |