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French's 1977 Novel , ''The Women's Room'' (ISBN 0345353617) follows the lives of several women who met as graduate students at Harvard and became feminists during the heyday of Women's Liberation . One of the characters, Val, becomes a Lesbian Separatist , stating (over her friend Mira's protests) "Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relationships with men, in their relationships with women, all men are Rapists , and that's all they are. They Rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes" (p. 462). Anti-feminist critics have sometimes quoted Val's dialogue as evidence of Misandry by French (and other feminists by association), without noting that the passage is spoken by one of many characters in a novel (cf. [http://www.fatherhoodcoalition.org/cpf/newreadings/2001/feminist_hate_speech.htm , [http://www.cooltools4men.com/notguilty.htm], etc.). SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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