!981 - 1984 Humanities [Ideas & Society] Degree Bristol Polytechnic [mature student]
I assure you, I read all sorts of books, extracts, and journals like that on the course reading list...
My own recreational and Post Grad reading continuing for many years on that theme...
My late teens to early 30s were dominated by serious women and feminist theories.
That is in essence why I am and what I am...

Even on such a progressive lefty degree as mine
[you can imagine the student stereotypes - and not be far wrong]
where radical feminism was a fundamentalist given core principle;
at that time I took issue with the implications of that book,
and how it was more widely interpreted and misapplied in wider radicalised circles, and youth media...

Whatever positive identity politics intentions that writer had for the body consciousness of women,
the resulting influence on popularist thinking was misguided and irresponsible...

Jack - Your arrogant confrontational accusation is stirring long dormant memories
of the best and the worst of that era in my life...

[one lecturer in particular was a vindictive intolerant insecure shit who relished the power she held over young students...
I once innocently questioned her on a point I didn't quite understand,
and she immediately took offence accusing me of being 'anti intellectual'..what...!!!???,
From then on she had it in for me and made sure I knew it;
trying her best to make me want to quit the course.
I ought to thank her for that lesson in the human nature of some of my middle class mentors and 'superiors' on the left... ]