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women in terms less crude than Erikson's "inner space," feminist
psychologists would do well to heed Elshtain's warnings about the
dangers of thinking primarily in categories: women cannot act as a
cohesive group any more than can the proletariat. Even today, in the
present phase of the movement, feminists pride themselves on their
egalitarianism; "elitism" and hierarchies are rejected as structures
devised for the advantage of men . But at some point (one hopes soon)
feminists will need to address the real distinctions among female in–
dividuals. They may even decide, despite Elshtain's misgivings, to
accept Plato's notion that only some women were meant to lead, and
that these might need to deny themselves some of the traditional per–
quisites of being female.
MARY LEFKOWITZ
Coming in
PARTISAN REVIEW
• Stephen Spender on George Orwell
• Fiction by Bernard Malamud and Yuz Aleshkovsky
• Frank Kermode on the decline of the man of letters
• Roger Shattuck:
Having Congress
• Milan Kundera on modernism
• An interview with Mario Vargas-Llosa
• Andrei Siniavski:
The Joke Inside The Joke
• Cornelius Castoriadis on the defense of Europe
• Octavio Paz on Central America
• Victor Erlich : A Note on Russian Futurism
• Barbara Rose on Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock
• An enlarged fiftieth anniversary issue
