1. What evidence does Ginia Bellafante use to support her claim that feminism is no longer a serious political movement? How do Marcia Ann Gillespie and Carolyn Waldron refute Bellafante’s claim? Whose argument is more convincing? Explain your answer.
2. Is the rhetorical device used by Charles Krauthammer—describing a major feminist tenet and explaining how feminists have abandoned that tenet—effective in persuading you that contemporary feminists have betrayed their former principles? Why or why not? How would Susan Faludi respond to each of the assertions made by Krauthammer?
3. What assertions and assumptions do each of the authors in this chapter make about feminism? Which of these do you agree with, and why"