DISCIPLINE AND VANISH FEMINISM, THE RESISTANCE TO THEORY, AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL STUDIES
In November 1988, the National Association of Scholars held a conference in New York City. Three hundred academics attended, including such well-known media figures as John Silber, then president of Boston University, later a candidate for governor of Massachusetts, and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a polit...
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| Published in | Women's Studies on the Edge p. 139 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Duke University Press
09.06.2008
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | In November 1988, the National Association of Scholars held a conference in New York City. Three hundred academics attended, including such well-known media figures as John Silber, then president of Boston University, later a candidate for governor of Massachusetts, and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a political scientist, formerly of the United Nations. The assembled scholars were exhorted “to redeem American higher education from intellectual and moral servitude to forces having little to do with the life of the mind or the transmission of knowledge.” These usurping forces, composed of academic “radicals” engaged in “oppression studies,” apparently threatened the objective pursuit of |
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| ISBN: | 9780822342526 0822342529 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv11sn3bm.9 |