Antifeminism in America: A Reader : a Collection of Readings from the Literature of the Opponents to U.S. Feminism, 1848 to the PresentThe documents in this paperback inform the reader's understanding and appreciation of the social and political context of opposition in which the advocates of women's rights labored from 1848 to 1996. Arranged in six parts by historical periods, these original articles from mainstream magazines, specialized and academic journals, and books display the tone and substance of opposition to women's rights as it appeared in popular literature. The selections reflect the public campaign, fought in the popular press, of opponents to the fundamental goal of all aspects of movement for women's rights, to challenge the gender system by advocating equality for women. |
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Contents
Education of the Female | 37 |
Womans Rights Viewed Physiologically and Historically | 55 |
Woman Suffrage | 79 |
Third Paper Women and Reforms | 100 |
The Restless Woman | 108 |
Arthur Stringer | 116 |
Fred Perry Powers | 122 |
Are Womens Clubs Used by Bolshevists? | 145 |
An Objective View? | 196 |
Women Husbands and History | 228 |
The Found Generation | 237 |
Sex Unwanted | 253 |
Excerpts from Sexual Suicide | 269 |
Excerpts from The Total Woman | 293 |
Lord Teach Me to Submit | 317 |
The Feminist Movement | 324 |
Gina Lombroso Ferrero | 151 |
Sex Inferiority | 164 |
Are Ten Too Many? | 174 |
A Womans lnvasion of a Famous Public School | 182 |
The lntelligent Womans Guide to Feminism | 339 |
The Failure of Feminism | 387 |
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