What Do Women Want?
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2001-07-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Cathy Young |
Feminism seeks new adherents-and old goals
The heated feminist debates of the early 1990s seem to have simmered down, but the flow of books about the future of women and feminism continues unabated. 1999 was a vintage year for conservative homilies such as Wendy Shalit's A Return to Modesty and Danielle Crittenden's What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us, both of which argued that the quest for equality had gone too far and urged women to rediscover traditional values. By contrast, the last months of 2000 saw a crop of books proclaiming that feminism has not gone far enough and...
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