Who-Stole-Feminism.-How-Women-Have-Betrayed-Women

Chapter 6A Bureaucracy ofOne's OwnIf there is one word that sums up everything that has gonewrong since the war, it's "workshop."—ATTRIBUTED TO KINGSLEY AMISThat the gender feminist perspective is comparable to a Copernicanrevolution is open to question. A revolution has undoubtedly taken place,but it is more a bureaucratic than an intellectual one.In 1982 Peggy Mcintosh, the associate director of the Wellesley CollegeCenter for Research on Women, gave a prescient and influential keynoteaddress to an audience of feminist scholars in Geneva, Indiana:I think it is not so important for us to get women's bodies in highplaces, because that doesn't necessarily help at all in social change.But to promote women who carry a new consciousness of how themountain strongholds of white men need valley values—this willchange society. . . . Such persons placed high up in existing powerstructures can really make a difference. 1Ms. Mcintosh's beguiling metaphors are matched by her unerring understandingof how to gain control of bureaucracies, a talent that hashelped to make her one of the most influential and effective leadersamong academic transformationists. The gender feminists that Dr. Mc-