In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It’s been hard to say why. What I’ve learned from women’s experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange...

Man fucks woman; subject verb object.

Women, it is said, possess corresponding power. Through consciousness-raising, women found that women’s so-called power was the other side of female powerlessness. A women’s supposed power to deny sex is the underside of her actual...

This defines the task of feminism not only because male dominance is perhaps the most pervasive and tenacious system of power in history, but because it is metaphysically near perfect. Its point of view is...

To be rapable, a position that is social not biological, defines what a woman is.

Men who are in prison for rape think it’s the dumbest thing that ever happened… it’s isn’t just a miscarriage of justice; they were put in jail for something very little different from what most...