Once Upon a Time… Once upon a time — what seems like a long time ago but is really only yesterday — women were invisible — theoretically, academically, and politically. From the vantage point of the early 1990s, it is hard to remember — and difficult to imagine — the scholarly world without books, journals, newsletters, or courses that even mentioned women. It is hard to recapture the enthusiasm that greeted Maggie Benston’s article on the Political Economy of Women’s Liberation and Marylee S..