Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!daemon From: apa@PROOF.CS.CMU.EDU (Penny Anderson) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: The Sceptical Feminist (was Re: feminist spirituality) Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 89 12:00:19 GMT References: <1336@cattell.psych.upenn.edu> <8906270132.AA08548@hop.toad.com> Sender: ambar@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 12 Approved: ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu There may indeed be a book _The_Skeptical_Feminist_ by Barbara G. Walker, but it should not be confused with _The_Sceptical_Feminist_, by Janet Radcliffe Richards, published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1980. I don't much care for Richards, but there's nothing like "unfounded speculation" in her very hardheaded book. If ever there was a woman who "writes like a man," she qualifies. She is a respectable academic philosopher of the school that I think may be called analytical. If it is useful at all, her book may serve as a source for arguments that are effective when dealing with anti-feminists on their own ground, that is, in a context that does not include a critical analysis of the usual categories "male" and "female" and "the natural", or of traditional sexual relations.