ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author develops the distinction between expression and creation in more detail. He also wants to enlarge on his claim that a pragmatist feminist will see herself as helping to create women rather than attempting to describe them more accurately. The author does so by taking up two objections which might be made to what he has been saying. The first is the familiar charge that pragmatism is inherently conservative, biased in favor of the status quo. The second objection arises from the fact that if readers say that women need to be created rather than simply freed, readers seem to be saying that in some sense women do not now fully exist. Yoking feminism with pragmatism is like yoking Christianity with Platonism, or socialism with dialectical materialism.
