Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on
a cultural journey toward equality in the workplace, on the street, and in the h
ome. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress h
as stopped and in some cases, even reversed.
In "The""End of Equality," renowne
d feminist Beatrix Campbell argues that even as the patriarchy has lost some of
its legitimacy, new inequalities are emerging in our culture. We are living, Cam
pbell writes, in an era of neo-patriarchy in which violence has proliferated; bo
dy anxiety and self-hatred have flourished; rape is committed with impunity; sex
trafficking thrives, and the struggle for equal pay is at an end.
