CIA feminist backs Gore

[Liza Featherstone]

But actually this issue has some serious historical weight. Steinem NEVER
made a substantive statement on her problematic CIA involvement; she largely
dismissed her critics as freaky leftists. And it was a huge issue among
feminists at the time, contributing to some irreparable splits between those
who identified with the left and those who didn't, splits that have
persisted to this day. The dissension over it certainly contributed to Ms
magazine's rightward drift (left-libertarian feminist Ellen Willis resigned
from Ms over it, etc). Susan Brownmiller has a pretty thorough and
interesting account of it all in her new book (she herself is a rabidly
anti-left cultural feminist, but was critical of Steinem's political
stupidity in failing to address the charges)

Liza

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>From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu>
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: RE: CIA feminist backs Gore
>Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2000, 11:48 AM
>


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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
>>
>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Chris Lehane
>> January 25, 2000 615-340-3251
>> STATEMENT FROM GLORIA STEINEM
>
>More cop-baiting?
>
>Why should anyone take seriously condemnation by leftists of red-baiting by
>liberals when various leftists are so willing to engage in this kind of
>cop-baiting?
>
>Especially when the statute of limitations should have run out on this one.
>
>-- Nathan
>