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Women’s Studies and Its Discontents: I think, therefore I am dangerous—A feminist button  

Catharine R. Stimpson ▪ Winter 1996

In the spring of 1995, I taught an undergraduate class in women’s studies at Rutgers University, a large public university. All of the students, even the “nontraditional” ones, were younger than I. I felt a fine affection for my students: …



Neither Dominant Nor Subordinate: The Women’s Movement and American Culture  

Catharine R. Stimpson ▪ Summer 1980

To ask about the new feminism and contemporary American culture, I must begin with Le Deuxieme Sexe, which Simone de Beauvoir published in France 31 years ago. Joyless but monumental, that book articulated a concept of woman that American feminists, …



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