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.
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 goa...
From the fall of 1975 to the spring of 1977, as Grandin, a public school in North Carolina, was desegregating, four anthropologists carried out an ethnographic study of the fifth and sixth grade classes. Their research highlighted the interactional, cultural, and institutional processes of making race and race relations in the school.
From the fall of 1975 to the spring of 1977, as Grandin, a public school in North Carolina, was desegregating, four anthropologists carried out an eth...