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All Of Women's Aspirations--whether For Education, Work, Or Any Form Of Self-determination--ultimately Rest On Their Ability To Decide Whether And When To Bear Children. For This Reason, Reproductive Freedom Has Always Been The Most Popular Item In Each Of The Successive Feminist Agendas--and The Most Heavily Assaulted Target Of Each Backlash.

The Women's Movement. . . Has Proved Women's Own Worst Enemy.

Feminism's Agenda Is Basic: It Asks That Women Not Be Forced To "choose" Between Public Justice And Private Happiness. It Asks That Women Be Free To Define Themselves-instead Of Having Their Identity Defined For Them, Time And Again, By Their Culture And Their Men.

The American Woman Has Not Yet Slipped Into A Cocoon, But She Has Tumbled Down A Rabbit Hole Into Sudden Isolation.

A Backlash Against Women's Rights Is Nothing New. Indeed It's A Recurring Phenomenon: It Returns Every Time Women Begin To Make Some Headway Towards Equality, A Seemingly Inevitable Early Frost To The Brief Flowerings Of Feminism.