The debate around political correctness has been loud, public, and fractious. The skirmishes have been featured everywhere, from Time to The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour, while the subjects of the attack-the teachers-have been largely pushed off to the sidelines. Out of the uneven terrain comes PC Wars, the first book dedicated to a serious analysis of the PC phenomenon.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Jeffrey Williams; Part 1 The Campaign Against PC; Chapter 2 On "PC" and Related Matters, Richard Ohmann; Chapter 3 The Campaign Against Political Correctness, Joan Wallach Scott; Chapter 4 Truth, Justice, and the American Way, Michael Bérubé; Chapter 5 The Great PC Scare, Jim Neilson; Chapter 6 "Political Correctness", Tom Lewis; Chapter 7 What Was "Political Correctness"?, Christopher Newfield; Part 2 The Trouble with Theory; Chapter 8 The War Against Theory, Michael Sprinker; Chapter 9 We've Done It to Ourselves, Reed Way Dasenbrock; Chapter 10 Theory Against Itself, John S. Howard, James M. Lang; Chapter 11 "Not Theory ... But a Sense of Theory", Frank Farmer; Chapter 12 Of Safe(r) Spaces and "Right" Speech, Darlene M. Hantzis, Devoney Looser; Part III Othering the Academy; Chapter 13 Russell Jacoby, Antiprofessionalism, and the Politics of Cultural Nostalgia, Barry W. Sarchett; Chapter 14 Othering the Academy, Bruce Robbins; Chapter 15 Academics as Public Intellectuals, Henry A. Giroux; Chapter 16 A Paradox of the Culture War, Gerald Graff;