Chapter 18. Good Will Toward Men: Carol Iannone
Professor; the politics of feminist scholarship
Carol is one of the twenty-two women interviewed in the 1994 book Good Will Toward Men.
Carol Iannone, Ph.D., is a professor of literature and writing at New York University’s Gallatin Division. She is a vice-president of the National Association of Scholars (NAS), an organization formed to combat the politicization of higher education, a phenomenon now commonly known as political correctness. She is a consulting editor of Academic Questions, the journal of NAS, and has written for Commentary and other periodicals.
(This info is from 1994, when the book was published.)
Jack: You were once a feminist. What caused your disenchantment with feminism?
Carol: I taught feminism and literature as a teaching assistant at the university level. I started being skeptical after being interviewed for a teaching job by a couple of feminists. Then I did my dissertation on feminism, and through the process of doing my dissertation, I came to feel that feminism was really a very limited, and in many instances, totally false, ideology.
Can you tell me about the interview that made you skeptical?
