![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1990s, new voices emerged: dissenters who shared the ideal of equal treatment for men and women and applauded female economic and social gains but took modern feminism to task for its tendency to downplay those gains, polarize the sexes, and portray women as victims of a brutal patriarchy. But those two perspectives dominated public discourse on gender. Neither camp was monolithic, and there were always some who didn't fit into either one. ![]() Carolyn Graglia, Dallas, Texas: Spence, 442 pages, $29.95Īs recently as 10 years ago, the debate about feminism was relatively simple: Conservatives wanted to preserve traditional roles feminists wanted to dismantle them. Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality, by Deborah Rhode, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 341 pages, $29.95ĭomestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism, by F. ![]()
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