Introduction

Sex and violence, or nature and art

The Venus of Willendorf

Nefertiti

Madonna : animality and artifice

Rape and modern sex war

Junk bonds and corporate raiders : academe in the hour of the wolf

The MIT lecture : crisis in the American universities

The strange case of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill

The nursery school campus : the corrupting of the humanities in the U.S.

The return of Carry Nation : Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin

A white liberal women's conference

Loose cannons : review of Germaine Greer, Slip-shod sibyls

Men's sports vanishing

Coddling won't elect women, toughening will

Academic feminists must begin to fulfill their noble, animating ideal

Gridiron feminism

The modern battle of the sexes

American gender studies today

The cruel mirror : body type and body image as reflected in art

The pitfalls of plastic surgery

Feminism past and present : ideology, action, and reform

No sex please, we're middle class

The stiletto heel

Scholars in bondage : review of Margot Weiss, Techniques of pleasure; Staci Newmahr, Playing on the edge; and Danielle J. Lindemann, Dominatrix

Gender roles : nature or nurture

Are men obsolete?

Put the sex back in sex ed

It's time to let teenagers drink again

Cliquish, tunnel-vision intolerance afflicts too many feminists : interview with Deborah Coughlin, Feminist times

Southern women : old myths and new frontiers

The modern campus cannot comprehend evil

Why I love The real housewives

What a woman president should be like

Feminist trouble : interview with Ella Whelan, Spiked review

On abortion

What's in a picture : Robert Mapplethorpe's portrait of Patti Smith for Horses.