The American Prospect, January 1st, 1999
Feminism may be dead, but what the right is trying to bury is not that of feminism but of a caricature created by the media and the propaganda machine of the right. Symbolic public figures--Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Bridget Jones and Ally McBeal--have been set up as symbols. The real disparity is not between the theories feminism espouses and its actions in view of the Lewinsky affair, or between women's personal and political desires in view of Ally McBeal, but between the way feminism defines itself and the way it is defined by others. Headlines should proclaim the surprising strengt...
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