The interdisciplinary feminist strategies of re-reading Rand range from the lightness of camp to the darkness of de Sade, from postandrogyny to poststructuralism. A highly charged dialogue on Rand's legacy provides the forum for a reexamination of feminism & its relationship to egoism, individualism, & capitalism. Rand's place in contemporary feminism is assessed through comparisons with other twentieth-century feminists, such as Beauvoir, Wolf, Paglia, Eisler, & Gilligan. What results is as provocative in its implications for Rand's system as it is for feminism. Contributors are Barbara Branden, Nathaniel Branden, Diana Mertz Brickell, Susan Love Brown, Susan Brownmiller, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Thomas Gramstad, Melissa Jane Hardie, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Valerie Loiret-Prunet, Wendy McElroy, Karen Michalson, Camille Paglia, Sharon Presley, Robert Sheaffer, Joan Kennedy Taylor, Barry Vacker, & Judith Wilt.
