Critiquing a Gender Diary

By now, thousands of college students have read A Gender Diary. Both colleagues and students have discussed the piece with the author over the years and in the early 1990s, Snitow collected some of this commentary, seeking to include some of these interesting responses inside the piece itself to create a dialogue. This critique section also includes the author’s more general speculations about the piece’s reception, limitations, and possible usefulness for moving with more clarity and empathy among feminist positions. Feminist ambivalence about central women’s movement goals is unavoidable and potentially productive.