Contents

Preface Nancy Tuana ix

Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Part One: Looking Back

1 Ayn Rand: The Reluctant Feminist 25 Barbara Branden 2 Ayn Rand and Feminism: An Unlikely Alliance 47 Mimi Reise! Gladstein 3 On Atlas Shrugged 57 Judith Wilt 4 Ayn Rand: A Traitor to Her Own Sex 63 Susan Brownmiller 5 Psyching Out Ayn Rand 67 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 6 Reflections on Ayn Rand 77 Camille Paglia vi Contents

Part Two: Feminist Rereadings of Rand's Fiction

7 Ayn Rand and Feminist Synthesis: Rereading We the Living 83 Valerie Loiret~Prunet 8 Skyscrapers, Supermodels, and Strange Attractors: Ayn Rand, Naomi Wolf, and the Third Wave Aesthos 115 Barry Vacker 9 Looking Through a Paradigm Darkly 157 Wendy McElroy 10 The Romances of Ayn Rand 173 Judith Wilt 11 Who Is Dagny Taggart? The Epic Heroline in Disguise 199 Karen Michalson

Part Three: Toward a Randian Feminism?

12 Was Ayn Rand a Feminist? 223 Nathaniel Branden 13 Ayn Rand and the Concept of Feminism: A Reclamation 231 Joan Kennedy Taylor 14 Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Individualism: A Feminist Psychologist's Perspective 251 Sharon Presley

15 Ayn Rand: The Woman Who Would Not Be President 275 Susan Love Brown 16 Rereading Rand on Gender in the Light of Paglia 299 Robert Sheaffer 17 Sex and Gender Through an Egoist Lens: Masculinity and Femininity in the Philosophy of Ayn Rand 319 Diana Mertz Brickell

18 The Female Hero: A Randian~Feminist Synthesis 333 Thomas Gramstad

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19 Fluff and Granite: Rereading Rand's Camp Feminist Aesthetics 363 Melissa Jane Hardie

Selected Bibliography 391 Contributors 397 Index 403