Asked to picture a feminist, the average Columbia student might think of the images of Wollstonecraft or Beauvoir adorning Contemporary Civilizations’ canonical texts, or scour his memory for grainy photographs of early women suffragists hidden in high school history books. He might think of hordes of enthused hippies with waist-length hair burning bras, or lipsticked women of the ’90s reappropriating short skirts and high heels.
