Educated in Romance
Women, Achievement, and College Culture
288 pages, 7 tables 6 x 9
©
1990
Cloth $32.00
ISBN: 9780226349435
Published June 1991
Paper $22.00
ISBN: 9780226349442
Published April 1992
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.
Awards
- American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice
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