Educated in Romance - Women, Achievement, and College Culture

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.

About the author

Dorothy C. Holland is professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Margaret A. Eisenhart is professor of education at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret A. Eisenhart, Eisenhart Margaret A., Dorothy Holland, Dorothy C. Holland, Holland Dorothy C.
• Assisted by: R. W. Connell (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1992
• EAN: 9780226349442
• ISBN: 978-0-226-34944-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 22 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 425 g
• Series: Women, Achievement, and Colleg
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher