The conservative ladies do GothamSuzanne Fields (archive) May 19, 2003 | Print | SendNot so long ago, the New York editors and publishers of books regarded the "conservative woman" as an oxymoron. They shared the sensibility of radical feminists who once called Kay Bailey Hutchinson, the Republican senator from Texas, "a female impersonator." Women writers and women readers were liberal or they didn't exist.A decade ago, I wrote a book proposal with the title, "Women Without Men," examining the sad effects of feminism, among them that radical feminism had deprived a lot of women of men. A senior male editor...