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Some critics argue that Gilligan and her colleagues overemphasize the importance of gender. "Gilligan's wrong about any sex differences in moral thought," declares Eleanor Maccoby, professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford. What the revisionist scholars are mapping, she contends, is the influence of socialization -- meaning that society expects different things from the sexes and trains them differently. Class, education or ethnic background may be more important than sex in shaping psychological growth. The new theorists are "overgenderizing," says Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, a sociologist at City University of New York. "Seeing distinctions and stereotyping are so much a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self & Society: Coming From A Different Place | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

Perhaps what most rankles among politicians, parents and scholars is the angry tone of much revisionist rhetoric. Reformers who want to vilify Christopher Columbus because, they say, he slaughtered Native Americans may miss larger truths. "We don't study the Greeks because they had slaves and mistreated women," points out Honig. "Our job in education is to put ideals before kids." But the questions are, Whose ideals? and How should they be portrayed? -- all of which promises to inspire clashes in American classrooms for the foreseeable future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Of, By and For - Whom? | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...place of the familiar panoramas of flesh-ripping Godzillas, Horner describes the most common dinosaurs as "the cows of the Mesozoic." He has found the remnants of one dinosaur herd -- an estimated 10,000 waddling, plant-eating duckbills. Even Tyrannosaurus rex seems less terrible in his revisionist view. Horner believes it followed herds of triceratops, scavenging carcasses and occasionally preying on weak individuals, much as hyenas follow wildebeests in Africa. Artists' renderings of pitched battles in which a triceratops tries to gore a tyrannosaurus in the belly are misleading. Triceratops was more likely to use its horns as a modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...mean to dismiss the sincerity of the traditional notion of women as the more sympathetic and compassionate gender. Nevertheless, I am aware of what traditionally happens to women when they defy this stereotype. Revisionist historians look to the Salem witch trials as a backlash against women who might have been seen as overly demanding, cold or just plain aggressive. Seventeenth century judges used a "w" instead of a "b," and the flogging commenced...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: She's a Real... | 4/12/1990 | See Source »

Even more troubling is a revisionist approach to history in which groups that have gained power in the present turn to remaking the past in the image of their desires. If 18th, 19th and earlier 20th century society should not have been so dominated by white Christian men of West European ancestry, they reason, then that past society should be reinvented as pluralist and democratic. Alternatively, the racism and sexism of the past are treated as inextricable from -- and therefore irremediably tainting -- traditional learning and values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond The Melting Pot | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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