Nothing Compares to You

When in 2017 Hillary Clinton used the phrase “the future is female” commentators in far-right-wing media deplored her for “alien[ating] half of the human race” (Wilhelm 2017). The phrase, as Heather Wilhelm says, is attributed by the New York Times to a slogan on T-shirts designed and sold in a feminist bookshop in 1975. It is not difficult to imagine that the title of Ciara Cremin's book reviewed here is one likely to attract similar bellicose attention in right-wing circles. What may be harder to imagine is that the book may also attract the ire of some who style themselves as leftist, “gender critical feminists,” or more accurately: TERFs. TERFs in England where I live prefer to be called “gender critical feminists.” They claim that their “feminism” is politically left wing and, quite bizarrely, not antitrans. There is considerable evidence, however, that establishes their connections in Europe with far-right...