katie roiphe

[Jim heartfield]

In message <01beb42d$725a4880$4896e5cf at peterk.enteract.com>, Peter
Kilander <peterk at enteract.com> writes
>kelley:
>>Perhaps some of the boys on the list can speak to her allure; it's always
>>eluded me and I don't think I need to get catty.
>
>
>James Hearfield, inquiring minds want to know! 

I can't speak to her allure, personally. But I happily insist that both
of Roiphe's books, The Morning After and Last Night in Paradise are
amongst the best written on sexual politics in the last decade.

The hostility to Roiphe's work is a measure of the fact that she exposed
the shibboleth's of a one-time oppositional movement that is fast
becoming the establishment.

The central point is that the feminist movement has become conservative
in its sex negativity, effectively coalescing with the moral panics of
the Christian right. Who could disagree?

-- 
Jim heartfield