| | John Armaos, you might find it interesting to follow the works of The Association of Libertarian Feminists (www.alf.org)
These are some of the better known names among feminists who are not Marxists. As an Objectivist yourself, you probably have read a lot of Joan Kennedy Taylor.
Sharon Presley
Lynn Kinsky
Joan Kennedy Taylor
Wendy McElroy
Tonie Nathan
Deirdre McCloskey
(Working in both economics and gender studies, Dr. McCloskey has devoted much of her professional work to developing the ideas in her recent book, Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce.)
You might want to read this book:
Freedom, Feminism, and the State by Wendy McElroy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_McElroy
or
Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist (Cambridge University Press, 2006) written by Dr. Tara Smith of the University of Texas at Austin, another well known advocate of freedeom.
On the ALF website is this statement:
In September, 1975, ALF became a national organization at a meeting held in New York City. In an effort to promote Libertarian views at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas in 1977, I submitted a proposal for removing all sections of the United States Postal Regulations which restrict the mailing of contraceptive samples and contraceptive information. Such antiquated postal regulations prevent private agencies and contraceptive manufacturers from dispensing information that would allow women to control their reproduction. Taxpayers are now paying much of public birth control education and abortion costs. I don't think the government should be involved in this nor should persons who object to this type of activity be forced to fund it with their tax dollars. -- Tonie Nathan.
John Dailey, you probably know material like this from The Weekly Standard of William Kristol:
In reality, of course, it is the Islamic feminists themselves who are on a civilizing mission--one that is vital to their own welfare and to the welfare of an anxious world. A reviewer of Irshad Manji's manifesto celebrating Islamic feminism aptly remarked, "This could be Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare." Ipso facto, it should be our fondest dream. And if, along the way, Islamic feminism were to have a wholesome influence on American feminism, so much the better.
"The Subjection of Islamic Women And the fecklessness of American feminism," by Christina Hoff Sommers, 05/21/2007, Volume 012, Issue 34.
(Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of The War Against Boys and coauthor of One Nation Under Therapy.)
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 1/01, 6:59am)
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