
Where have all the interesting women gone? If the contemporary portrayal of womankind were to be believed contemporary female achievement would culminate in the ownership of expensive handbags a vibrator a job a flat & a man. Of course no one has to believe the TV shows the magazines & adverts & many dont. But how has it come to this? Did the desires of twentieth-century womens liberation achieve their fulfilment in the shoppers paradise of naughty self-pampering playboy bunny pendants & bikini waxes? That the height of supposed female emancipation coincides so perfectly with consumerism is a miserable index of a politically desolate time. Much contemporary feminism particularly in its American formulation doesnt seem too concerned about this coincidence. This short book is partly an attack on the apparent abdication of any systematic political thought on the part of todays positive up-beat feminists. It suggests alternative ways of thinking about transformations in work sexuality & culture that while seemingly far-fetched in the current ideological climate may provide more serious material for future feminism.