Recent Articles

“Standpoint Theory Arrives at the Court,” Minding the Campus, June 23, 2009.  Available at:http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2009/06/by_daphne_patai_one_of.html#more

“Public Intellectuals as Propagandists,” Society 46:2 (March/April 2009): 129-136.

“MacKinnon as Bully,” in Daphne Patai, “What Price Utopia?” Essays on Ideological Policing, Feminism, and Academic Affairs (Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), pp. 181-203.

“Letter to a Friend: On Islamic Fundamentalism,” in Daphne Patai,“What Price Utopia?” Essays on Ideological Policing, Feminism, and Academic Affairs (Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), pp. 61-68. Available on-line at: http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=272

“Afterword” (with Will H. Corral), in Framing Theory’s Empire, ed. by John Holbo (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2007), pp. 240-261. On-line at www.parlorpress.com. (Our response to a volume with several dozen essays, originating as a scholarly discussion on- line, at TheValve.org., devoted to our book Theory’s Empire.)

“Oral History: Theory and Practice,” in Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. by Bonnie G. Smith. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

“The Fading Face of Humanism,” in Debating Humanism, ed. Dolan Cummings (Exeter, UK: Societas Imprint Academic, 2006), pp. 65-74.

“Feminist Pedagogy Reconsidered,” in Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis, ed. by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber (Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications, 2006), pp. 689-704.

“Speaking as a Human . . .” The Liberal (London) Sept-Oct. 2005, pp. 28-30.

“The Battle of Ideas,” Times Higher Education Supplement (October 29, 2005).

“Third Thoughts about Orwell?” in George Orwell into the Twenty-First Century, ed. Thomas Cushman and John Rodden (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2004), pp. 200-211.

“Women on Top,” Academic Questions 16:2 (Spring 2003): 70-82.

“The Great Tattling Scare on Campus,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 31, 2003: A56.

“Academic Affairs” (review-essay on six American novels), Sexuality & Culture 6:2 (Spring 2002): 65-96.

“Katharine Burdekin,” entry in  British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers, 1918-1960, ed. Darren Harris-Fain. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 255 (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002), pp. 3-13.

“Whose Truth? Iconicity and Accuracy in the World of Testimonial Literature,” in The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy, ed. Arturo Arias (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), pp. 270-87.

“Rhetoric and Reality in Women’s Studies,” Gender Issues 19:2 (Spring 2001): 21-60.

“The Professor as Hooker,” Sexuality & Culture 5:1 (Winter 2001): 99-104

“Do They Have to Be Wrong?” (review-essay on an evolutionary study of rape) Gender Issues 18:4 (Fall 2000): 74-82.

“Will the Real Feminists in Academe Please Stand Up?” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 6, 2000: B7-9 (review-essay on three books about women’s studies). Followed by an On-Line Colloquy, October 4, 2000.

“Sex and Cognition,” Sexuality & Culture 4:3 (Summer 2000): 89-95.

“Speak Freely, Professor–Within the Speech Code.” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 9, 2000: B7-8.

“Casting Out the Demon,” Sexuality & Culture 4:1 (2000): 13-15.