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What Do Women Want?

Feminism seeks new adherents -- and old goals

Cathy Young | July 2001 Print Edition

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $15

Sex & Power, by Susan Estrich, New York: Penguin Putnam/Riverhead, 287 pages, $24.95

Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World, by Peggy Orenstein, New York: Doubleday, 325 pages, $25

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