SOURCE: A review of Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, in New York Times Book Review, Vol. 99, October 9, 1994, p. 22.

In the following review of Reasonable Creatures, Shapiro questions Pollitt's use of statistics, but praises the collection.

Whether the subject is breast implants, Lorena Bobbitt or bad sex, Katha Pollitt has a strong opinion about it. Reasonable Creatures collects 19 funny and furious essays, previously published in The New York Times, The Nation and The New Yorker. In which Ms. Pollitt takes on the most compelling issues of our day concerning the sexes and turns them upside down. Along with her razor-sharp wit and her impatience with sound-bite solutions, what sets Ms Pollitt apart from other feminist writers is her concern for social justice. For example, she takes the psychologist Carol Gilligan to task for basing a theory of gendered ethics on "interviews with a handful of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates...