Abstract
During the early stages o f soliciting essays for this collection, one of the editors encountered the following reaction: "This is a book that shouldn't be written. Feminists should concentrate on how men oppress women, not how bad women are t o each other." The very hostility an d vigor of the objection to examining "women at odds," suggesting that this is a book whose subject touches a nerve, convinced us that such a book ought to be written—and written by feminists.