Women's exclusion from the regime of rationality in academia has been achieved largely through their sexual objectification by men, although women have demanded and struggled to become full participants in the regime of rationality. The authors consider the extent to which the structure of academic criminology and the field's professionalization process have been feminized over time, whether women are more central to the production and dissemination of criminological knowledge than they were 30 years ago, and whether women's perspectives on crime and criminal justice are fundamentally different from those of men and therefore potentially able to transform academic criminology. Challenges to the involvement of feminists in the field of criminology are noted. 47 references, 12 notes, and 4 tables