Editing Naomi Wolf (section)

===''Fire with Fire'' (1993)===
In ''Fire with Fire'' (1993), Wolf wrote about politics, female empowerment, and women's sexual liberation.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wolf |first=Naomi |title=Fire with Fire |url=https://archive.org/details/firewithfirenewf00wolf |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Random House |year=1993 |isbn=978-0679427186}}</ref> She wished to persuade women to reject "[[victim feminism]]" in favor of "power feminism". She argued for diminishing the issue of opposing men, avoiding divisive issues such as abortion and the rights of lesbians, and considering more universal issues like violence against women, pay disparities and sexual harassment.<ref name="CNNTime19991201" /> Mary Nemeth wrote in ''[[Maclean's]]'' that her "central thesis—that when Anita Hill in 1991 accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment she provoked a 'genderquake' that turned American women into 'the political ruling class'—seems grossly exaggerated."<ref>{{cite news|last=Nemeth|first=Mary|url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1993/12/6/whos-afraid-of-naomi-wolf|title=Who's afraid of Naomi Wolf?|work=Maclean's|date=December 6, 1993|access-date=March 13, 2021|archive-date=November 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123195619/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1993/12/6/whos-afraid-of-naomi-wolf|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Melissa Benn]] in the ''[[London Review of Books]]'' called the book Wolf's "call for a realpolitik in which 'sisterhood and capital' might be allies".<ref>{{cite news|last=Benn|first=Melissa|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v20/n03/melissa-benn/making-it|title=Making It|work=London Review of Books|volume=20|number=3|date=February 5, 1998|access-date=March 1, 2021|archive-date=February 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226190303/https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v20/n03/melissa-benn/making-it|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Michiko Kakutani]] of ''The New York Times'' assailed ''Fire with Fire'' for its "dubious oversimplifications and highly debatable assertions" and its "disconcerting penchant for inflationary prose", but approved of Wolf's "efforts to articulate an accessible, pragmatic feminism, …helping to replace strident dogma with common sense."<ref>{{cite news|first=Michiko|last=Kakutani|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DB1E39F930A35751C1A965958260&scp=1&sq=naomi%20wolf%20fire%20with%20fire&st=cse |title=Books of The Times; Helpful Hints for an Era of Practical Feminism|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 3, 1993}}</ref> ''Time'' magazine reviewer Martha Duffy dismissed the book as "flawed", but wrote that Wolf was "an engaging raconteur" who was also "savvy about the role of TV—especially the Thomas-Hill hearings and daytime talk shows—in radicalizing women, including homemakers", characterizing the book as advocating an inclusive strain of feminism that welcomed abortion opponents.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Duffy|first=Martha|title=Tremors of Genderquake|magazine=Time|date=December 27, 1993|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979918,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028051320/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979918,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 28, 2010|access-date=December 16, 2010}}</ref> Feminist author [[Natasha Walter]] wrote in ''[[The Independent]]'' that the book "has its faults, but compared with ''The Beauty Myth'' it has energy and spirit, and generosity too." But Walter criticized it for having a "narrow agenda" where "you will look in vain for much discussion of older women, of black women, of women with low incomes, of mothers." Calling Wolf a "media star", Walter wrote: "She is particularly good, naturally, on the role of women in the media."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Walter|first=Natasha|title=How to change the world and be sexy: Fire with fire|journal=The Independent|location=London|date=November 18, 1993|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/book-review-how-to-change-the-world-and-be-sexy-fire-with-fire-naomi-wolf-chatto-windus-pounds-1199-1505274.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/book-review-how-to-change-the-world-and-be-sexy-fire-with-fire-naomi-wolf-chatto-windus-pounds-1199-1505274.html |archive-date=June 18, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=January 21, 2016}}</ref>