Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom. By Linda M. G. Zerilli. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 272p. $55.00 cloth, $22.00 paper.

In her book, Linda Zerilli sets out to accomplish three very important and difficult tasks. The first is to persuade contemporary feminist theorists to leave behind their methodological concern with the category woman and to pursue political freedom understood as the practice of “beginning anew.” The second is to articulate and defend such an understanding of political freedom in light of other ways of thinking about the topic. The third is to show how political freedom so understood might be used to develop a feminist project of political freedom that empowers women as a group without imposing false universals on them.