Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sex and violence, or nature and art -- The Venus of Willendorf -- Nefertiti -- Madonna: animality and artifice -- Rape and modern sex war -- Junk bonds and corporate raiders: academe in the hour of the wolf -- The MIT lecture: crisis in the American universities -- The strange case of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill -- The nursery school campus: the corrupting of the humanities in the U.S. -- The return of Carry Nation: Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin -- A white liberal women's conference -- Loose cannons: review of Germaine Greer, Slip-shod sibyls -- Men's sports vanishing -- Coddling won't elect women, toughening will -- Academic feminists must begin to fulfill their noble, animating ideal -- Gridiron feminism -- The modern battle of the sexes -- American gender studies today -- The cruel mirror: body type and body image as reflected in art -- The pitfalls of plastic surgery -- Feminism past and present: ideology, action, and reform -- No sex please, we're middle class -- The stiletto heel -- Scholars in bondage: review of Margot Weiss, Techniques of Pleasure; Staci Newmahr, Playing on the Edge; and Danielle J. Lindemann, Dominatrix -- Gender roles: nature or nurture -- Are men obsolete? -- Put the sex back in sex ed -- It's time to let teenagers drink again -- Cliquish, tunnel-vision intolerance afflicts too many feminists: interview with Deborah Coughlin, Feminist Times -- Southern women: old myths and new frontiers -- The modern campus cannot comprehend evil -- Why I love The Real Housewives -- What a woman president should be like -- Feminist trouble: interview with Ella Whelan, Spiked Review -- On abortion -- What's in a picture: Robert Mapplethorpe's portrait of Patti Smith for Horses.