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Educated in Romance Women, Achievement, and College Culture

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ISBN-10: 0226349446

ISBN-13: 9780226349442

Edition: 1992

Authors: Dorothy C. Holland, Margaret A. Eisenhart, R. W. Connell

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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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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Dorothy Holland is Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Donald M. Nonini is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

R. W. Connell is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney in Australia. He is the author of The Men and the Boys (California, 2001) among other books on gender.

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Why Study Women's Responses to Schooling?
The Odyssey behind the Case
The Theoretical Framework and Existing Studies
Reproduction Theory and the Gender Status Quo
Questions about Women's Responses to Schooling
The Study
Campus Profiles and an Overview of the Study
Campus Life: The Past and the Present
Gender Relations
Gender Relations Culturally Construed: Romance and Attractiveness
Girlfriends: Fragile Ties with Other Women
Getting into the World of Romance and Attractiveness
Strategic Moves: Postponing, Feigning, and Dropping Out of Romance
Gender Politics and Peer Divisions
Academics
Schoolwork for What?
Pathways to Marginal Careers
Women's Discontents with the University
Conclusions
Unfinished Lives
Appendix: Research Design and Methods
Notes
References
Glossary
Index