Daphne Patai
Daphne Patai (* 1943 ) is an American literary scholar .
Life
Patai is the daughter of the orientalist and anthropologist Raphael Patai . She studied comparative literature at Indiana University (Bachelor) and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin ( Ph.D. ). She was a fellow of u. a. National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . She is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of several books. She is considered a feminism critic.
Fonts (selection)
- Myth and ideology in contemporary Brazilian fiction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford 1983.
- Looking backward, 1988-1888: essays on Edward Bellamy. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 1988.
- Brazilian women speak: contemporary life stories. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 1988.
- with Noretta Koertge: Professing feminism: cautionary tales from the strange world of women's studies. BasicBooks, New York 1994.
- Heterophobia: sexual harassment and the future of feminism. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham 1998.
- with Wilfrido H. Corral: Theory's empire: an anthology of dissent. Columbia University Press, New York 2005.
- What price utopia ?: essays on ideological policing, feminism, and academic affairs. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2008.
Web links
- Website of Daphne Patai ( Memento of December 8, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- Daphne Patai at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- The Great Tattling Scare on Campuses
- Literary criticism Heterophobia: sexual harassment and the future of feminism
- Literary criticism Professing feminism: cautionary tales from the strange world of women's studies
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| SURNAME | Patai, Daphne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1943 |