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Cheney, Lynne V. – Humanities, 1992
Warns that higher education, particularly in the humanities, has become politicized. Argues that restrictions on the freedom of speech of professors and students in the name of feminist and antiracist ideologies are one-sided examples of "political correctness." Contends that the humanities are diminished by such politicalization and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Feminism, Freedom of Speech, Higher Education
