A Critical Review

Wendy Kaminer tells us in very gratifying tones of the beginnings of women’s education. She says that while the schools may have favored typical gender roles, they did spark the idea of women as citizens. She feels that in the early years single-sex schools were the only known choice. She thinks that many of the current feminists are crazy for accusing coed schools of discouraging girls’ achievement. To her the main focus

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I found her essay to be filled with wonderful facts but a lot of fiction. Although she pushes my buttons a little too much when she contrasts the choices of sexually segregated schools with racial segregation. Kaminer may feel that she was doing society a favor in writing this piece of work, but I feel that it didn’t do much of any good for either sex.

In order to make sure that we as readers do not confuse the author’s message for something other than what it is we must read with critical eyes. She managed to grab the reader’s attention with outrageous remarks. And yet underneath her wholehearted happiness for her own sex, she seems to feel that women’s rights have gone to far. She seems to despise the very women she was praising earlier. We must be able to decipher between fact and fiction. Now, correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t men and women quite different in their educational differences. Instead of supporting her claims logically she does so abruptly and in an unflattering manner. She brings up a very valid point when the courts rule that an all-boys school would violate the Fourteenth Amendment and federal equal-education laws, but that all-girls schools are a separate situation. Shockingly her conclusion was slightly more interesting. Ridiculously enough she goes on to inform her audience that research has been done on this area, and it concluded that girls do lose more interest in school and exhibit less confidence than most boys. Her support for this argument is absolutely horrible.

Common topics in this essay:
Wendy Kaminer, Fourteenth Amendment, African Americans, Critical Review, Supreme Courts, all-girls schools, single-sex schools, coed schools, wendy kaminer, segregated schools, coeducational schools,

Approximate Word count = 1013
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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