For
my writings on feminism — really very few over the years —
I've been called a “misogynist”, among other things. I
deny this, and hereby affirm that I do like some women (as well as some
men) and do support the fair and rational goals of women's
liberation. But these goals are far removed from the stridently
censorious, men-are-the-enemy variety of feminism, which has come to
prevail. Christine Hoff Sommers has made a strong case in her
book, Who Stole Feminism,
that women themselves are the main victims of what she calls “gender
feminism”.
In
this section are my writings from the 1970s:
•
Rape: Hysteria and
Civil
Liberties is a review of Susan Brownmiller's 1975 book, Against
Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.
To read it click here.
•
Dangerous Trends in
Feminism is a talk I gave at the Gay Academic Union Conference
IV, New York City, 1976. To read it click here.
•
Censorship &
Feminism is a pamphlet I published in 1978, reprinting a news
item and eleven letters that appeared in WIN
Magazine from 19
January to 13 July 1978. Also included is my reply (7 August 1978) to
attacks on me, which WIN refused to
print. To read it click
here.
My recent review of the
book, Sex Rights:
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2002, questions whether the alliance
between Amnesty International and certain strains of feminism is a good
thing. To read it click here.
Note: the image at the top of this page was drawn by the German artist,
Fidus (1868-1948) as the cover design for the journal, Die Kultur. I
have replaced “Die Kultur” wirh
“Feminism”.
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