Books, Arts & Manners: Feminists against Women

The Failure of Feminism, by Nicholas Davidson (Prometheus, 350 pp„ $24.95)

The morning’s New York Times carries a Quotation of the Day from a state-supreme-court judge: “Who among us is not familiar with the tattered, filthy, malodorous presence of the wretched homeless?” If he’d stopped there, it would have been fine. But of course he went on to the inevitable: “The blame and shame must attach to us, not them.”