Educated in Romance :Women, Achievement, and College Culture

Educated in Romance

Educated in Romance :Women, Achievement, and College Culture

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Published: 1 March, 1992
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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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Type Book
ISBN13 9780226349442
ISBN10 0226349446
Number Of Pages 288
Item Weight 425 g
Product Dimensions 17 x 22 x 2 mm
Publisher / Reseller The University of Chicago Press
Format paperback
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