http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/con/2001/con_01-12-12.html

The Department of Women’s Studies at California State University, Hayward is offering a course in “The Sexuality of Terrorism.” Most people never imagined that terrorism had anything to do with sexuality, but that’s not what those who study women think. But according to their materials, it would be more accurate to say that terrorism has a nationality, one that sounds a lot like American.

The course is based on two books. The first is The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten: Life Beyond the Cult by Karlene Faith. Van Houten was a member of Charles Manson’s murderous gang, which fit the definition of terrorism as the willingness to kill innocents to advance a political cause. The second book is The Demon Lover: On the Sexuality of Terrorism by Robin Morgan.

A casual look at Morgan’s book reveals a confused gazpacho of jargon, feminist boilerplate, hysteria, polemics, and just plain nonsense. Consider, for example, this sample:

Yes, murder exists. The fear exists. The grief exists. But yes, the terrorist is a figment of our imagination—and more, a figment of our lack of imagination.

The terrorist is the logical incarnation of patriarchal politics in a technological world.

The terrorist is the son practicing what the father has practiced, and claiming to have found his own identity in doing so [italics original].

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Sally Pipes is the President and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank

"All this amounts to more evidence that the feminism practiced by Morgan, Roy, and others is simply the women’s auxiliary of the anti-America left. When you subsidize this shrill and dreary ideology with tax dollars, it becomes women’s studies."