This chapter examines how the New Left received the social struggles of white women; how that struggle opened new vistas for the New Left, particularly female members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); and how, simultaneously, the pull of traditional American gender relations distorted those new understandings and kept them within the orbit of white male domination. It shows that the New Left refused to examine gender seriously, and, in so doing, continued to accept uncritically as natural U.S. society’s definitions of gender.