Feminist Betrayals: Jean Curthoys' Feminist Amnesia: The Wake of Women's Liberation (Critical Essay‪)‬

The Culture Wars One of the major historical achievements of the late twentieth century is that women's voices and issues have gained a systematic place in the intellectual life of the academy for the first time in over two thousand years of western thought. This and like efforts at inclusion of outsiders have provoked a hot new phase of the Cold War cultural attack on the academic Left known in the United States as 'the culture wars'. The main project of renewal for this genre in the United States involves ridiculing and discrediting the outsider newcomers in the academy, accused, frequently under the over-generalised and misleading rubric of postmodernism, of intellectual corruption and gross violation of intellectual standards.