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her personal experience, her support of abortion rights was fully consonant with her
emphasis on individualism and personal liberty.
50. Joan Didion made a nearly identical argument in “The Women’s Movement,” in
The White Album (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979), 110. Many feminists did indeed
have Marxist roots. See Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine
Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (Amherst: University
of Massachusetts Press, 1998).
51. Ayn Rand, “The Age of Envy, Part II,” The Objectivist, August 1971, 1076.
52. Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1975), 315.
53. Barbara Grazzuti Harrison, “Psyching Out Ayn Rand,” Ms., September 1978,
reprinted in Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Sciabbara, eds., Feminist Interpretations of
Ayn Rand (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), 70, 75, 72, 76.
54. Gladstein and Sciabbara, Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, 49; “Sightings,”
The Navigator: An Objectivist Review of Politics and Culture 6, nos. 7–8 (August 2003),
available at www.objectivistcenter.org/navigator/articles/nav+sightings-nav-6–78.asp
[July 26, 2005]. Organizations dedicated to individualist feminism include Feminists for
Free Expression, the Association of Libertarian Feminists, and the Independent Women’s
Forum. The last is analyzed in Ronnee Schreiber, Righting Feminism: Conservative
Women and American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Joan Kennedy
Taylor, the author of Reclaiming the Mainstream: Individualist Feminism Rediscovered
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992) and a longtime friend of Rand, was an important
fi gure in this movement. Wendy McElroy of www.ifeminist.com also identifi es
Rand as an infl uence.
55. Rand’s remarks are printed in Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q
and A, ed. Robert Mayhew (New York: New American Library, 2005), 91, 72.
56. SIL News 3, no. 12 (1972): 1.
57. This discussion of the Libertarian Party draws on my article, “O Libertarian,
Where Is Thy Sting?” Other works that discuss the Party’s history are Joseph Hazlett,
The Libertarian Party and Other Minor Political Parties (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992);
Kelley, Bringing the Market Back In. The Libertarian Party pledge is found in There Is No
Middle Ground, LP pamphlet, in “Campaign Literature 1972–1981,” Box 1, Libertarian
Party Papers (hereafter LPP), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
58. Interview with David Nolan by Palmer, July 1, 1984, Interviews with Libertarian
Party members, 1984, Box 11, LPP. A poll of activists found 36 percent identifi ed as
Objectivists and 75 percent were former Republicans. Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism,
391; Colorado Libertarian, February 1977, 2, Papers of the Colorado Libertarian Party,
LPP. The second position belonged to a publication by Roger MacBride, the Party’s
1975 presidential nominee. “You Are What You Read: Survey of CA Libertarian Party
Members,” Colorado Liberty 1, no 2 (1979); 1972 Libertarian Party pamphlet, Tired of
Being the Politicians’ Puppet?, Campaign Literature 1972–1981, LPP.
59. Don Ernsberger, “Politics and Social Change,” SIL News 2, no. 11 (1971): 2–5.
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