The Rev. Dr. Sarah B. Drummond

Beyond Equality

Women

“Landerholm's book uses the term "insanity" in a way that makes me feel sane. So often as a woman who is a leader in educational administration and Christian ministry, I find maddening the ways in which both sorts of institutions minimize the differing experiences of female- and male-bodied persons. Even worse, I find that pointing out obvious differences causes me and other women to be less trusted and less professionally marketable. Truth-telling about lived experience results in charges of oversensitivity from the right. From the left, women who speak up are scolded for not prefacing their remarks with how much worse the discrimination queer-bodied people experience is. Landerholm presents what I would consider a realistic interpretation of what is difficult about the man's world that the academy remains. She also provides hope that, when we get past competitive mindsets, we might be able to work across differences to improve higher education as a whole.”