Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Daphne Patai (born 1943) is a feminist scholar and author. She is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her PhD is in Brazilian literature, but her early work also focused on utopian and dystopian fiction. She is a leading critic of the politicization of education, in particular of the decline of free speech on college campuses as programs conform to pressures from feminists and other identity groups. She is the daughter of the anthropologist Raphael Patai.