Review: Against Bryan Caplan's "Denialist Foray Into Feminism"

Haven't read the book, but the criticism/review isn't very good. It fits a standard template: feminism is pure good, because it is merely the idea that men and women should be politically equal. In fact, feminism went radical/anti-liberal thirty years ago. It also went postpostmodern, rejecting, for instance the very idea of a definition / essence of feminism. It's extremely common for feminists to claim that there is no such thing as feminism--"only feminismS." Popomos looove gratuitous pluralization... I don't consider myself a feminist because the feminism of the academy is a radical, antiliberal irrationalism. You might even say that liberal feminism is a victim of its own success--the egalitarian thesis was so obviously right that almost every reasonable person adopted it. Nobody even considers that feminism anymore. Feminism now isn't the Mills--it's Judith Butler. It's no longer the claim that gender is different than sex--that men needn't be masculine and women needn't be feminine. Now it's gender ideology, the central claim of which is that men are by definition masculine and women by definition feminine. More masculine girls are no longer fine just as they are--they're "transgender" boys...and probably ought to be shot full of hormones and have their breasts chopped off asap... Radical feminists almost always pretend feminism is liberal and egalitarian when called on their radicalism--and that's exactly what the author of the Caplan review does. 

   Now, whether he makes the other errors she accuses him of--I have no idea. But she's running a well-known motte-and-bailey about this point. Don't fall for it.