July 26, 2002

The 'Party Line' of Academic Feminism

To the Editor:

Mary Zeiss Stange claims to find it ironic that academic feminism -- which "began with the assertion that the personal is political" and prides itself on its "inclusiveness" -- somehow continues to exclude women with political and religious beliefs divergent from the "party line" to which she refers ("The Political Intolerance of Academic Feminism," The Review, June 21). But this is simply a case of a discrepancy between rhetoric and reality. Second-wave feminism,