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Feminism for Sale

By Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet. Posted January 8, 2001.


In the year 2000, after decades of wrangling with the myth of the ugly, hirsute, ball-busting women's libber, the culture has finally seemed to reconcile beauty and power, fun and feminism. But like so many other cease-fires in our society, this one was negotiated largely in the marketplace.

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