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Schweickart's article had wonderful gems of truth hidden in the academic blah blah blah. There were moments of great clarity and truths that spoke to me as a feminist reader of male and female texts. The major issue I had was her total concession to gender stereotypes. She buys into this image of all women seeking to connect and form relationships. She says by reading anything in a community of women where all voices are heard is in and of itself a feminist reading. I think that this is a touchy-feely sentiment that doesn't fit with her wonderful scholarly approach to women as writers and readers. Call me a traditionalist, but for me a feminist reading/interpretation is talking about what you see as a resiting reader, discussion of women's roles in the work itself, and application of feminist and feminist literary theory to the literature.