What Price Utopia?

Daphne Patai is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author and editor of a dozen books, including Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism; Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women’s Studies; and Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Fading Face of HumanismPart 2 Utopia for Whom?Chapter 3 The Struggle for Feminist Purity Threatens the Goals of FeminismChapter 4 What Price Utopia?Chapter 5 There Ought to be a LawChapter 6 Justice Comes to U. Mass.Chapter 7 Feminism and the FutureChapter 8 Third Thoughts about Orwell?Chapter 9 Letter to a Friend: On Islamic FundamentalismPart 10 Women's WordsChapter 11 Who's Calling Whom "Subaltern"?Chapter 12 When Method Becomes PowerChapter 13 Sick and Tired of Scholars' Nouveau SolipsismChapter 14 Domesticating TranquilityChapter 15 Will the Real Feminists in Academe Please Stand Up?Chapter 16 Whose Truth? Iconicity and Accuracy in the World of Testimonial LiteraturePart 17 HeterophobiaChapter 18 Heterophobia: The Feminist Turn Against MenChapter 19 Politicizing the PersonalChapter 20 Do They Have To Be Wrong? On Writing About RapeChapter 21 Women on TopChapter 22 MacKinnon as BullyPart 23 Academic AffairsChapter 24 Why Not a Feminist Overhaul of Higher Education?Chapter 25 Speak Freely, Professor—Within the Speech CodeChapter 26 The Great Tattling Scare on CampusChapter 27 Academic AffairsChapter 28 You Say Social Justice, I Say Political CensorshipChapter 29 Feminist Pedagogy ReconsideredChapter 30 On Writing Theory's Empire (with Will H. Corral)

For twenty years, Daphne Patai, whose awareness of these bizarre phenomena grew out of her own bitter experience with the seamy side of women's studies, has been a courageous contrarian voice, challenging the anti-intellectualism and the old fashioned power-lust that the ethos of "politically committed" teaching and scholarship has visited on campus life. The essays in What Price Utopia? fully display the range and vigor of Patai's arguments and testify to the enduring strength of the liberal ideals of intellectual freedom and the inviolable sanctity of private life. She brings the good news that the best of the Enlightenment still lives if only we have the guts to defend it against the sneers of its trendy enemies.