SOURCE: "First-Class Citizen," in The Women's Review of Books, Vol. XII, No. 7, April, 1995, pp. 1, 3.

In the following review of Reasonable Creatures, Solinger argues that Pollitt's strengths are her wide ranging knowledge and practical arguments.

In recent days I've had occasion to talk on the phone to a couple of women whom I've never met, an English professor in Pittsburgh and a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis. Even though the professor's work focuses on women and she's a regular reader of this review, and the journalist writes about women's issues, neither of them had heard of Katha Pollitt. I tried to take the news quietly in both cases, but I was shocked. And depressed.

It's no fun collecting proof of how difficult it is for the most brilliantly accessible and keenly perceptive feminist writer around to break into mass culture—of even feminist culture—in this country. Maybe it's that...