This weekend I attended a reading of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, by Naomi Wolf, and finished Susan Faludi's new book, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America. Perhaps it is no coincidence that, within months of each other, two...

Last Tuesday, author Courtney Martin published an interview, "Why Feminists Fight," about my new book, Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, on AlterNet. By Friday, 103 comments had piled up in response. The majority of these reiterated the "sex debates" that characterized 1980s feminism...

I came home from a heady feminist conference this weekend in the mood for some slightly lighter fare. So on Sunday my beau and I went to see Knocked Up -- the original plan was Spiderman 3, but Judd Apatow won out. Yesterday, my dear boy sent me the...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you write a feminist book, someone is going to disagree with you. And that that someone is just as likely to be a woman.

It used to be easy (and satisfying) to blame the media for trivializing feminist debate as a...