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.
Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture
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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN / ASIN0226349446
ISBN-139780226349442
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