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

254 WHO STOLE FEMINISM?efforts to broaden the presentation of intellectual ideas . . . have beenmiscast." President Futter should take a close look at the "thoughtfulefforts" that went into the women's health survey, commissioned underher watch. 86Hoeffler had successfully seen to it that the Harris report was not justanother study applying "white male norms" of research. Donna Shalalaspotted this feature of the report and commended it as a distinguishingvirtue. One must hope that her comment that "white male" research hasprevailed "for too long" does not represent a considered judgment. Forunlike Ms. Hoeffler, an ideological Ms. Shalala would be no bit player inthe misandrist game that the gender feminist zealots are playing. Theprofessionalism of American research is an enormous and precious nationalresource. And Ms. Shalala heads a department whose outlays arealmost double that of the Department of Defense.Robert Reich, the U.S secretary of labor, wrote a blurb for Backlashdescribing it as "spellbinding and frightening ... a wake-up call to themen as well as the women who are struggling to build a gender-respectfulsociety." 87One can only hope, again, that Reich was too spellbound tohave read Backlash with a discriminating mind. What is more alarmingthan anything Faludi has to say about an undeclared war against Americanwomen is the credulity it has met in high public officials on whosejudgment we ought to be able to rely.