cover image Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture

Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture

Dorothy C. Holland. University of Chicago Press, $25 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-226-34944-2

This well-documented book, the result of a 10-year study, reveals that gifted, motivated college women often scale down career aspirations in order to marry and strive for physical beauty at the expense of education. (Apr.)