Title: Peek out from behind your veil, dear.
Review: What sort of sheltered life has Ms. Shalit led? Reviewers give us some idea: born into academia, educated in a liberal arts ivory tower, and sprung fresh into the world, a fully grown messiah of a new feminism. Ms. Shalit's writing reflects her background: she reads texts well, and people badly. Her commentary on film and on intellectual debate, conservative and feminist alike, is extraordinarily sharp. However, when Ms. Shalit speaks of "women" and "men," the abstractions she summons forth bear very little relation to the women and men I know. It's ironic that this neo-con prodigy, set to tear down the 60s and post-everything (feminism, modernism, etc.), is really, in the final tally, nothing more than a talented literary critic.
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