Linda Hirshman, B.A. Cornell, J.D., University of Chicago, PhD,
University of Illinois, is a lawyer, philosopher and writer. She is the
author, most recently, of "Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution,"
(Harper/Collins 2012). "Victory" was optioned by ABC TV in 2013 for its
coming miniseries. She is at work at present on a dual biography of
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "Sisters-in-Law,"
forthcoming from Harper/Collins in 2015. In 2005 she published "Get to
Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World," sort of a "Lean-In" before
its time.
The gay Victory is not just a story, although that would be enough. It's an epic.
'Choice feminism,' the shadowy remnant of the original movement, tells women that their choices, everyone's choices, the incredibly constrained 'choices' they made, are good choices.