December 7, 2001

Using Feminism as a Straitjacket Is 'the Most Effective Tool of Sexism'

To the Editor:

What gives Paula M. Krebs the right to decide what is a valid reason for someone to pursue a non-tenure-track position in academia ("Why 'Family First' Is Not a Win for Academic Feminists," The Review, November 2)? Her suggestion that it is illegitimate and insufficiently feminist for a woman to want to live in the same place as her husband and young child is presumptuous and offensive. Maybe the applicant's husband tried and could not get a job near her. Maybe the