CAUTIONARY TALES FROM THE STRANGE W ORLD OF WOMEN'S STUDIES D APHNE PATAI & NO RETTA KOERTGE • PROFESSING FEMINISM • P R F E Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies DAPHNE PATAI AND NORETTA KOERTGE A New Republic Book BasicBooks A Division of HacperCollinsPublishers Copyright © 1994 by Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge. Published by BasicBooks, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address BasicBooks, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299. Designed by Ellen Levine LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Patai, Daphne, 194 3- Professing feminism : cautionary tales from the strange world of women's studies I Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-465-09821-5 (cloth) ISBN 0-465-09827-4 (paper) 1. Women's studies-United States. I. Koertge, Noretta. II. Title. HQ1181.U5P37 1994 305.42'0973-dc20 94-18271 CIP 95 96 97 98 •!• /RRD 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Gerald - D. P. For Deborah, Matthew, and Emma - N. K. Lying is done with words, and also with silence. -ADRIENNE RICH Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. -ALBERT CAMUS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https ://archive. o rg/ details/profess in gfe m in i00daph