Contents // Preface // Nancy Tuona 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 Reisel 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 Valérie Loire t-Prune t // 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 Hero/ine 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 RandianTeminist Synthesis 333 // Thomas Grams tad // Contents vii // 19 Fluff and Granite: Rereading Rand’s Camp Feminist // Aesthetics 363 // Melissa Jane Hardie // Selected Bibliography 391 // Contributors 397 // Index 403