You may find something useful on this site:

http://aynrandlexicon.com/about-ayn-rand/books-about-ayn-rand.html

Thank you Beatrice for the speedy reply. I will check it out. I am currently writing about Ayn Rand and it seems to me that her relationship to issues of gender and politics has been rather overlooked.

Anita, I was surprised to discover a little gem:

Feminism And Objectivism by By William R Thomas at http://www.atlassociety.org/feminism-and-objectivism

As a teaser, Ayn Rand, the Objectivist, is said to have referred to herself as a male chauvinist. Sounds Intriguing.  Best wishes!  

Thank you Mary. I also learned recently that one of her followers addressed her as 'dear father'!

Just watch "The Fountainhead" with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, that about says everything you need to know about Ayn Rand and feminism. No? How about Gladstein (1978) Ayn Rand and Feminism: An Unlikely Alliance and Gladstein and Sciabarra, eds (1999) Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand? I have never really considered the implications of objectivism and the philosophy of selfishness on feminist ethics of care, but it would be interesting reading.

Hi Gordon, I like the ethics idea.

I've read the novel which is a real eye opener! I knew about the early Gladstein books and I have had a good look around to find more recent writing but there just doesn't seem to be anything much out there. I wondered what her feminist contemporaries had to say about her, if anything. I was also thinking that there must be more recent  work on conservative/radical women such as Rand and their relationship to the feminist politics. For example, in Britain there is a lot of feminist work about Margaret Thatcher (not a feminist herself) which examines her relationship to the gender politics of power e.g. Heather Nunn's book on Thatcher, Politics and Fantasy (see link).    

Mimi Galstein, "Ayn Rand and Feminism: an unlikely alliance." College English, 39-6.

Thanks Scott, much appreciated!

Just stumbled on your question and the answers.

Interestingly, I was also reading a piece today on "Ayn Rand and the Essence of Masculinity" in a blog http://www.rsdnation.com/node/62819. It says" Ayn Rand once said that the essence of femininity was "hero worship". By "hero", she did not mean a fireman rescuing a baby from a burning building or a store clerk tackling a criminal holding up a convenience store, or a soldier refusing to give up information to an enemy interrogation by torture. These acts she would have classified as acts of "courage" or "bravery". By "worship" she did not mean that the woman put the man on a pedestal or that she view herself as having lesser value or being beneath him. It meant that she admired and desired to have a man of this quality."

Interesting, isn't it? I am sure, you will have more than that to say!

Hello. What an intriguing discovery. Thank you for sending this to me...I will take a look now. Best wishes Anita

Thanks, Anita. That blog contains lot of junk too. Hope you will take the grains leaving out the chaff!

Dear Anita

here are the publications:

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/375869?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21106499312003

http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/content/102/407/local/back-matter.pdf

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41560131?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21106499312003

https://www.google.co.th/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZIZc4uq08t0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA251&dq=Ayn+Rand+and+feminism&ots=wPb7Yp0OmI&sig=XFRZdm32nbvGEj8qQ9GJmxUl7eA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Ayn%20Rand%20and%20feminism&f=false