Charlotte Witt writes, in her essay *Feminist Metaphysics*:
"Rorty's celebration of modern, liberal democracy and his rejection of the utility of any deep criticism of existing social categories ought to make feminists who accept his metaphilosophical views on their intrinsic merit reconsider them in light of their political implications. Rorty is a metaphilosophical radical, but a political moderate; his metaphilosophy only allows for a critique of patriarchy based on pragmatic concerns. But surely feminists want to do more than claim that gender bias based on biologism is not useful; surely we would want to claim that it is false ..." (in _A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason & Objectivity_, p277)
Michael Hoover