The exchange, which took place more than a decade ago, is a harbinger of developments to come. In the years to follow, not only would utopian feminism(s) clash with a militant radical feminism of power, but varieties of "power I gender" theories (built around Michel Foucault's model of "know ledgel power") would enter into shifting alliances as well as confrontations with psychoanalytic feminism. As a participant in the Gilligan-MacKinnon exchange, Ellen C. DuBois observed, "there are by this time many feminisms. Women are no longer ignored in the political scene .... The issues that the women's movement has raised are at the very center of this historical moment."7 Speaking these words in 1984, DuBois identified the crucial issues for American women as abortion and the election of a female vice president. Today there are still many feminisms; women are no longer ignored in the political scene as much as they were at the beginning of the eighties, but it is not at all clear how, where, when, or why the "issues that the women's movement has raised are at the very center of this historical moment." After a decade of paradigm struggles, we are no longer sure that there is one movement; in fact, we know that there is not a single organization with the agenda of which a majority of women in this country would agree. More importantly, we no longer know what this historical moment is. As a consequence of postmodernist warnings against grand narratives, we have become skeptical about any tale of this or that historical moment, this or that historical sequence, or logic of development. In fact, we no longer know who "we" are. Postmodernist theorists tell us that this "we," even if only invoked as a rhetorical gesture of public speech and writing, is politically suspect, in that it tries to create a seeming community of opinion and views where there is usually none. Relishing in diversity, basking in fragmentation, enjoying the play of differences, and celebrating opacity, fracturing, and heteronomy is a dominant mood of contemporary feminist theory and practice.