by Michael Weiss and Cathy Young

About the authors: Michael Weiss is an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Cathy Young is an associate policy analyst at the Cato Institute, a columnist with the Detroit News, and author of Gender Wars.

Feminist legal theory has become a formidable presence in many of America’s top law schools. Feminist activism has also had a major impact on many areas of the law, including rape, self-defense, domestic violence, and such new legal categories as sexual harassment. However, the ideology of legal feminism today goes far beyond the original and widely supported goal of equal treatment for both sexes. The new agenda is to redistribute power from the “dominant class” (men) to the “subordinate class” (women), and such key...