Reader recall? Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique? Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics” (1970), Eva Figes’s Patriarchal Attitudes (1970), Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949)? Gloria Steinem was/is the respectable bourgeois version of ‘Feminism’! She fits more than comfortably in ‘NYT World’!
Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer.
'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.'
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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