Includes papers presented at a forum sponsored by the MLA Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession, in December 1987.
Includes bibliographies.
The two criticisms / by Paul Lauter -- On the rhetoric of racism in the profession / by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Dancing between left and right / by Annette Kolodny -- Language politics in the USA / by Ana Celia Zentella - - The right moves / by Ellen Messer-Davidow -- Politics and academic research / by Catharine R. Stimpson -- An alternative to educational fundamentalism / by Gerald Graff