ABSTRACT
Support for feminist ideas may continue to spread for a while among ordinary people, but with opinion-leaders it is already starting to crumble as two sources of division between women take on further significance. The first of these is age. The second dimension of dividing interests is class. Feminist assault on the public realm is geared to the aspirations of women who have high status careers available to them, and for whom paid work promises to be personally more rewarding than labor in the moral economy. Women do in any case need to remind each other that the private domain will decay unless enough of their energy is given to it, and they re-invest it again as the palace at the centre of civilized life. Over-emphasis on female independence, and rejection of sacrifice, has spawned a frog culture in which the sexes are polarizing, and men are becoming increasingly marginal as they revert to a wild state.
