Naomi Wolf's book Vagina: self-help marketed as feminism

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1. Say no to Naomi Wolf’s latest hair-tossing hokum

Anne McElvoy
05 September 2012

It takes a lot to put me off feminism, but one more book from Naomi Wolf might just do the trick ...

... But really what Ms Wolf is doing is to re-invent feminism with a light (and lightly understood) sprinkling of neuroscience. The result mistakes the search for the perfect sexual experience by an attractive woman for a major humanitarian journey ...

But the Wolfian sin is to reduce so much female experience to sex and sexual language. When it comes to a clash between her feminism and her Left-wing political views (we are at the dizzy political altitude here where Obama is regarded as a tyrant on civil liberties), confusion reins.

She makes threadbare excuses for Julian Assange, on the grounds that he might be having a rougher time than other alleged Swedish rapists: though not many of them are holed up in other people’s embassies. Oh, what a self-serving, unappetising dish is being served up here in the name of feminism. Let’s just say no.

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