Educated in Romance

Women, Achievement, and College Culture

• Author(s): Dorothy C. Holland, Margaret A. Eisenhart,
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Pages: 290
• ISBN_10: 022621849X
  ISBN_13: 9780226218496
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Gender Studies , Education / Teaching / General ,

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.