Bloemlezing van bijdragen vanuit feministisch perspectief over het werk van de Amerikaanse filosofe en schrijfster Ayn Rand. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Ayn Rand: the reluctant feminist / Barbara Branden: Ayn Rand and feminism: an unlikely alliance / Mimi Reisel Gladstein: On 'Atlas shrugged' / Judith Wilt: Ayn Rand: a traitor to her own sex / Susan Brownmiller: Psyching out Ayn Rand / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Reflections on Ayn Rand / Camille Paglia: Ayn Rand and feminist synthesis: rereading 'We the living' / Valérie Loiret-Prunet: Skyscrapers, supermodels, and strange attractors: Ayn Rand, Naomi Wolf, and the third wave aesthos / Barry Vacker: Looking through a paradigm darkly / Wendy McElroy: The romances of Ayn Rand / Judith Wilt: Who is Dagny Taggart?: the epic hero/ine in disguise / Karen Michalson: Was Ayn Rand a feminist? / Nathaniel Branden: Ayn Rand and the concept of feminism: a reclamation / Joan Kennedy Taylor: Ayn Rand's philosophy of individualism: a feminist psychologist's perspective / Sharon Presley: Ayn Rand: the women who would not be president / Susan Love Brown: Rereading Rand on gender in the light of Paglia / Robert Sheaffer: Sex and gender through an egoist lens: masculinity and femininity in the philosophy of Ayn Rand / Diana Mertz Brickell: The female hero: a Randian-feminist synthesis / Thomas Gramstad: Fluff and granite: rereading Rand's camp feminist aesthetics / Melissa Jane Hardie.