Against the Neoconservatives: Freud versus Feminism

The attitude of the women’s movement toward Freud has changed in recent years. The movement’s beginnings were marked by an attack upon what were seen as the rationalizations of Freudian theory for the subordination of women. Naomi Weisstein’s “Kinder, Kuche, Kirche as Scientific Law,” widely read among feminists of the New Left, represented the prevailing attitude toward psychological theory:

Psychology has nothing to say about what women are really like, ...