In The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom, Chesler documented how western academic and activist feminists came to abandon their former concepts of universal human rights for everyone and became multicultural relativists. She argues that their desire to avoid being labeled "racists" or "Islamophobes" eventually trumped their concern with women's and human rights in the Third World. The Death of Feminism was excerpted in Playboy magazine,Phyllis Chesler, "Gender Apartheid", Playboy, November 1, 2005. but she was also interviewed by The Washington Times, and positively reviewed in the pages of The Weekly Standard and The National Review.
