feminisms future

At Feminist Majority headquarters in Arlington, Va., security cameras monitor the entrance for anti-abortion protesters. Posters celebrate efforts to elect more women to political office. The library stocks Off Our Backs, Skirt! and other feminist journals. And the mail-order service offers such products as T-shirts that proclaim “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.”
At the Independent Women's Forum, just five blocks away on the same street of this Washington suburb, the ambience, and the politics, couldn't be more different. The “virtual organization,” as members describe it, is just a back room at a forum leader's law firm. For example, copies of the conservative Weekly Standard lie about, along with announcements for Ex Femina, a forum publication.
Leaders of the 1,500-member forum are scattered around the nation's capital in jobs as attorneys, business owners, and stay-at-home moms. Communicating often by e- mail, they spend their energies researching, p...