Wendy McElroy (born 1951) is a Canadian individualist feminist and voluntaryist writer. McElroy is the editor of the website ifeminists.net.
McElroy is the author of the book Rape Culture Hysteria, in which she contends that rape culture is a result of popular hysteria to the disadvantage of men, and in particular, white men.
In November 2014, McElroy was scheduled to debate Jessica Valenti at a Brown University Janus Forum debate on "How Should Colleges Handle Sexual Assault?". Before the debate, Brown President Christina Paxson sent out a campus-wide e-mail saying she disagreed with McElroy's views, and set up an alternative event at the same time to compete with the debate. The actions of Brown students and Paxson were criticized by various commentators.
Published works
Books
National Identification Systems: Essays in Opposition, by Carl Watner, Wendy McElroy, 2004 Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881–1908, 2003
Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women, 2001
Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition by Carl Watner, Wendy McElroy, 2001 Individualist Feminism of the Nineteenth Century: Collected Writings and Biographical Profiles, 2001 Queen Silver: The Godless Girl (Women's Studies (Amherst, NY), Queen Selections Silver, 1999 – about her friend Queen Selections Silver. Freedom, Feminism, and the State by Wendy McElroy, Lewis Perry, 1999 The Reasonable Woman: A Guide to Intellectual Survival, 1998 XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography Prelude Press, 1995, Liberty, 1881–1908: A Comprehensive Index, 1982 Articles