[soc.feminism] The Sceptical Feminist

apa@PROOF.CS.CMU.EDU (Penny Anderson) (06/29/89)

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.