Today's New York Times has an interesting series of articles on women's rights, including an intriguing hypothesis about the role of the Web in giving way to what Virginia Heffernan calls the "feminist hawks" position: "the one that advocates the use of force to liberate Muslim women from persecution and burkas".
She argues, in an essay called "The Feminist Hawks", that the "ideological Web" created the perfect vehicle for conservatives to coopt feminist and libertarian sentiments in the war on the Middle East.