Feminism Without Freedom

Feminism Without Freedom

Feminism Without Illusions
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
University of North Carolina Press, 1991. 348 pp. $24.95.

During the earliest skirmishes between the women’s liberation movement and its New Left progenitors, one of the charges that flew our way, along with “man-hater” and “lesbian,” was “bourgeois individualist.” Ever since, left criticism of the

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