Here Lies Feminist "Scholarship"

Bill Tighe sent me this link to Christian Hoff Sommer's article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Persisent Myths in Feminist Scholarship (the last word should have quotes around it....) Examples are given, including an entry by Joan Zorza, a domestic-violence expert, in a textbook college students are assigned:

Zorza also informs readers that "between 20 and 35 percent of women seeking medical care in emergency rooms in America are there because of domestic violence." Studies by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, indicate that the figure is closer to 1 percent.

One more:

Consider The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World (2008), by the feminist scholar Joni Seager, chair of the Hunter College geography department. Now in its fourth edition, Seager's atlas was named "reference book of the year" by the American Library Association when it was published. "Nobody should be without this book," says the feminist icon Gloria Steinem. "A wealth of fascinating information," enthuses The Washington Post. Fascinating, maybe. But the information is misleading and, at least in one instance, flat-out false.
One color-coded map illustrates how women are kept "in their place" by restrictions on their mobility, dress, and behavior. Somehow the United States comes out looking as bad in this respect as Somalia, Uganda, Yemen, Niger, and Libya. All are coded with the same shade of green to indicate places where "patriarchal assumptions" operate in "potent combination with fundamentalist religious interpretations." Seager's logic? She notes that in parts of Uganda, a man can claim an unmarried woman as his wife by raping her. The United States gets the same low rating on Seager's charts because, she notes, "State legislators enacted 301 anti-abortion measures between 1995 and 2001."

Feminist brain-washing for unsuspecting students (who pay for it)? Can't we just call such tenured "scholarship" something like an "oppressive structure of falsehood"?

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[Truth Unites... and Divides]

James Kushiner: "Feminist brain-washing for unsuspecting students (who pay for it)?"

Parents, students, and taxpayers pay for it.

And society as a whole "pays" for the consequences of liberal feminist brain-washing.

[Truth Unites... and Divides]

James Kushiner: "Can't we just call such tenured "scholarship" something like an "oppressive structure of falsehood"?"

I have no problem with you calling feminist "scholarship" an "oppressive structure of falsehood".