There is a paradox at the heart of feminism. Feminism is fundamentally an Enlightenment or modernist project; it concerns the emancipation of morally valuable individual subjects. Yet recent feminist theory rails against the principal tenets of Enlightenment thought: reason, autonomy, identity, universals, science, and—in the end— freedom itself. As a consequence, unable to articulate common grounds of oppression, the rug seems whipped from under our feet— leaving feminism struggling to articulate its relevance and purpose: "a "we" without a "we," a "we" without (philosophical) community."¹ As a response, we could dissolve the paradox by denying one or other approaches. But this would lead to retrenchment or to post-feminism. Alternatively, we could deny the paradox, viewing it rather as a number of problems produced by the equivocations, ambiguities, and tensions of modernity.