If it seemed in 1974 that the women's movement had introduced "possibilities for profound changes both in the way in which the discipline studies women and the way in which it defines 'political' activity," five years later there is little evidence that these possibilities have been realized or, indeed, even pursued.1 The hopeful, if cautious, tone of earlier reviewers now seems largely premature, and their efforts to delineate the kinds of research and theoretical development needed appear to have fallen on deaf ears.2