Reviews

From interviews with 135 women (mostly privileged college students) regarding their search for truth and knowledge, the authors (all female faculty members of colleges or universities) determine five learning ``perspectives'' that characterize ``women's way of knowing.'' The somewhat philosophical text, which skillfully blends narration, documentation, and excerpts from interviews, sees higher education's teaching methods as more responsive to male ``impersonalness'' than female ``connectedness'' and recommends ways to improve the situation. On the whole, a work ironically geared more to the dialectician or feminist scholar than to the ``integrated constructivist'' or ``passionate knower.'' For large public and academic libraries. Janice Arenofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix