Atlas Shrugged | On Atlas Shrugged

In the following essay, Wilt discusses Atlas Shrugged as a feminist work.

I could wish that the cancer-causing cigarette were not the ultimate symbol of glowing mind-controlling matter in the book, I could wish that the rails which reflect the self-assertion of the heroine were not envisioned running to the hands of a man invisible beyond the horizon—most of all I wish the author had resisted the temptation to have her hero trace the Sign of the Dollar over the devastated earth before his Second Coming. But yes, I agree with Mimi Gladstein, there is a feminist element in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, and it's on my ideal Women's Studies reading...

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