Educated in Romance Educated in Romance

Educated in Romance

Women, Achievement, and College Culture

Dorothy C. Holland & Margaret A. Eisenhart
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Publisher Description

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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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.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2015
July 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Chicago Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
4.1
MB

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