(AgapePress) - A researcher says her review of five popular college textbooks being used in women's studies programs nationwide has revealed the courses contain nothing but anti-male and anti-marriage propaganda, and that freshman women are being brainwashed with feminist lies that attack the family.

Dr. Christine Stolba did an informal survey of syllabi and on-line course content using the website of the feminist group National Women's Studies Association and a Women's Studies list serve. The senior fellow with the Independent Women's Forum reports she found nothing factual in women's studies programs at major universities like Cal-Berkeley and North Carolina, as well as private colleges such as Vassar and Syracuse University.

"There was a remarkably clear bias against things that most people assume are normal, such as marriage, motherhood, fatherhood, [and] the family," Stolba says. "This is actually at the heart of the women's studies' critique of society, and they feel that traditional arrangements, such as marriage and family ... oppress women -- and the textbooks definitely trumpet that message."

Stolba's findings are detailed in a 36-page review entitled "Lying in a Room of One's Own: How Women's Studies Textbooks Miseducate Students." [PDF]

The history scholar says one of the most interesting textbooks she reviewed was done by a consortium at the Hunter College "Women's Studies Collective."

"They published the very first women's studies textbook back in the seventies, and I read the most recent edition of that," she says. "In their chapter on marriage and family, the five authors describe how they had a very difficult time deciding what to say about marriage in the textbook. And even though some of them had had happy marriages, they determined that overall the institution [of marriage] oppressed women -- and so they had to see it as a challenge to women's equality."

Stolba says by encouraging women to see themselves as "victims" of men, feminists undermine the compatibility of the sexes that is necessary for a good marriage to work. She also cautions parents to remind their college-age children that if they want an education in the humanities, they had best avoid women's studies.

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