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Wendy McElroy is a weekly columnist for FoxNews.com, writing under the title “The ifeminist.” Her column is widely reposted on the Internet. She is the editor of the feminist website ifeminists.com. She is a research fellow at the Independent Institute and contributing editor of the Freeman, the New Libertarian, Free Inquiry, and Liberty magazines. Her writing has appeared in such diverse periodicals as National Review, Marie Claire, and Penthouse.
McElroy is the author of XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography (St. Martin’s Press 1995), Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women (McFarland 1996), The Reasonable Woman: A Guide to Intellectual Survival (Prometheus Books 1998), Queen Silver: The Godless Girl (Prometheus Books 2000), Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century (McFarland 2001), and The Debates of Liberty (Roman and Littlefield 2002). She edited Liberty for Women (Ivan R. Dee 2002) and Freedom, Feminism and the State (1st ed., Cato 1983; 2nd ed., Holmes & Meier 1991).
McElroy has also compiled Index to Liberty: 1881-1908, a comprehensive index to Benjamin Tucker’s 19th-century periodical, which can be accessed through the Memory Hole website under the category of individualist anarchism. Bibliographic Essay to Individualist Feminism is also located on this site.