Daphne Patai was born on 1943 and is an American scholar and author.
12 Facts About Daphne Patai
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Daphne Patai is professor emeritus of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Daphne Patai's PhD is in Brazilian literature, but her early work focused on utopian and dystopian fiction.
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Daphne Patai is the daughter of the anthropologist Raphael Patai.
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Routinely challenged by feminists who declare that "all education is political," Daphne Patai has responded with the claim that this view is simplistic.
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Daphne Patai's thesis is that a failure to defend the integrity of education and a habit of dismissing data and research on political grounds, not only seriously hurt students but leave feminists helpless in trying to defend education against other ideological incursions.
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Only positive knowledge, respect for logic, evidence, and scrupulous scholarship not held to political standards, Daphne Patai contends, can lead to a better future.
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Daphne Patai has written about the negative impact of Critical Theory on the study of literature.
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Daphne Patai insists that to criticize feminism and women's studies is not to seek to turn the clock back.
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Daphne Patai is credited with discovering who wrote the notable feminist dystopian novel Swastika Night and other feminist speculative fiction in the 1930s.
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Daphne Patai serves on the Board of Directors of The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a non-profit organization devoted to protecting First Amendment rights on college campuses.
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Daphne Patai's latest book, published in 2010 in Brazil, is a selection of her essays titled Historia Oral, Feminismo e Politica.