Marie Antoinette once famously said, “Let them eat cake.” I doubt that she envisioned feminists more than two hundred years later across the Atlantic Ocean taking her advice for a reason she didn’t even consider.

In Marie’s time, women were objects of desire and receptacles of semen in the process of conception. Women were free to have pseudo-relationships with each other, though public lesbianism was inconceivable at the time. Certainly, women didn’t have the right to vote, to hold an executive office or be in a position of influence. In fact, Joan of Arc was killed for presuming to wear men’s clothes, despite the fact that she won victories in the Hundred Year’s War and led to the coronation of King ...