My Books

Books:

“What Price Utopia?” Essays on Ideological Policing, Feminism, and Academic Affairs. Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. Link to amazon.

Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women’s Studies (with Noretta Koertge). Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2003.  New and expanded edition of Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women’s Studies. New York: Basic Books, 1994) Excerpted in Women’s Issues of the Decade,  ed. Rita Simon. Washington DC: Women’s Freedom Network, 2004, pp. 12-17.

Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism.  Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 277 pp.  Paperback, 2000.

Brazilian Women Speak:  Contemporary Life Stories. New  Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1988.  398 pp. Third printing, with new postscript: 1993. Excerpts from this book have been published in half a dozen anthologies.

The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology.  Amherst, MA.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. 334 pp. Excerpts from this book included in George Orwell’s 1984: Critical Interpretations, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 1987), pp. 47-85; and in Readings on Animal Farm, ed. Terry O’Neill (San Diego, CA.: Greenhaven Press, 1998), pp. 116-26.

Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson     University Press, 1983.  260 pp.

Books edited/translated/introduced:

Theory’s Empire: An Anthology of Dissent, ed. and introd. by Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.  725 pp. A revised version of the introduction to this anthology appears as “El Imperio de la Teoría,” in Malpensante (Bogotá, Colombia) # 61 (30 April 2005),  pp. 16-29, and also on-line at

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=164.

This book is the subject of a recent volume, Framing Theory’s Empire, ed. by John Holbo (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2007), originating as an on-line scholarly symposium devoted to Theory’s Empire, at TheValve.org.. It is available for sale and also free online at:

http://www.parlorpress.com/framingtheory.html

Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, ed. and introd., Angela  Ingram and Daphne Patai.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Women’s Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History, ed. Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai.  New York:  Routledge,  1991.  Link to amazon

Mulatto, by Aluísio Azevedo.  Translated by Murray MacNicoll. Edited by Daphne Patai. Introduction by D. Patai and M. MacNicoll. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990. Paperback: Univ. of Texas Press, 1993; second paperback printing 1996.

Proud Man, by Katharine Burdekin (reprint of 1934 novel).  Foreword and Afterword by Daphne Patai.  New York: The Feminist Press, 1993. Pp. ix-xxiv;  319-350.

By the Rivers of Babylon and Other Stories, by Jorge de Sena. Edited and with a preface by D. Patai. Translated by D. Patai and others.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989. Also published in Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990.

The End of This Day’s Business, by Katharine Burdekin (previously unpublished novel written in the 1930s). Afterword by D. Patai.  New York: The Feminist Press, 1989.  Pp. 159-190.

Looking Backward, 1988-1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy. Edited and with an introduction by D. Patai.  Amherst, MA.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

Swastika Night, by Katharine Burdekin (reprint of 1937 novel). Introduction by D. Patai.London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1985; copublished in the U.S. by The Feminist Press.