If we had to name the one cultural current that most characterizes America in the twentieth century, it might be the work of Freud and the disciplines that grew out of it. There is no one who remains unexposed to his vision of human life,, whether through courses in it (“psych”); through personal therapy, a […]

They lose sight of the Primary Struggle. Some special organiz­ing of women’s groups is possible, perhaps, but dangerous: ід terms of turning in on themselves, in terms of becoming petit bourgeois little cliques where they just talk about taking can of the kids all the time, or become a gripe session. (Italics mine) We have […]

by the late feminist attack. But the convalescence didn’t last long: women were soon reprivatized, their new class solidarity diffused. The conservative feminists, who at least had viewed their problems as social, had been co­opted, while the radical feminists were openly and effec­tively ridiculed; eventually even the innocuous committee- women of other movements came to […]

Though there have always been women rebels in his­tory,[2] the conditions have never before existed that would Industrial Revolution feminist rebellion was bound to re main only a personal one. The coming feminist revolution of the age of technolog) was foreshadowed by the thought and writing of individU’ al women, members of the intellectual elites […]

In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It is the second wave of the most important revo­lution in history. Its aim: overthrow of the oldest, most rigid class/caste system in existence, the class system based on sex—a system consolidated over thousands […]

Sex class is so deep as to be invisible. Or it may appear as a superficial inequality, one that can be solved by merely a few reforms, or perhaps by the full integration of women into the labor force. But the reaction of the common man, woman, and child—“That? Why you can’t change that! You […]