Feminism was locked, from the start, in an intimate relationship with technology, management, and the market system. The power of feminism rested on advances in contraception and abortion, and on the spread of civil rights principles out of government and into the corporate world. It was, in its essence, an ideology of the innovative, entrepreneurial, and managerial classes, an ally of technocracy, modernity, progress, and wealth. Feminists wanted to integrate the Metropolitan Club, not the Elks. Steinem mocked “the house-bound matriarchs of Queens and the Bronx.”
