The Political Intolerance of Academic Feminism

By MARY ZEISS STANGE

I met Rosemary several years ago, at a workshop in Texas on "Becoming an Outdoors Woman." Bunkmates, we stayed up late the first night, chatting. We had little in common. I was fortyish, no children, a feminist, a professor at a northeastern liberal-arts college, politically left of center. She was older, mother of four, a born-again Christian, had just completed an undergraduate psychology degree on her way to a master's degree in counseling, and politically conservative. But we did share a