Antifeminism in America: A Reader : a Collection of Readings from the Literature of the Opponents to U.S. Feminism, 1848 to the Present

Angela Howard, Sasha Ranaé Adams Tarrant

Taylor & Francis, 2000 - Social Science - 403 pages

The 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.

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
• Gina Lombroso Ferrero: 151
• Sex Inferiority: 164
• Are Ten Too Many?: 174
• A Womans lnvasion of a Famous Public School: 182
• 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
• The lntelligent Womans Guide to Feminism: 339
• The Failure of Feminism: 387
• Acknowledgments: 401

About the author

Gillian Swanson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England. She is co-editor (with Christine Gledhill) of Nationalizing Femininity: Culture, Sexuality, and Cinema in Britain in World War Two (Manchester University Press, 1996), and co-author (with Patricia Wise) of Going for Broke: Women's Participation in the Arts and Cultural Industries (1998).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Antifeminism in America: A Reader : a Collection of Readings from the Literature of the Opponents to U.S. Feminism, 1848 to the Present
• Editors: Angela Howard, Sasha Ranaé Adams Tarrant
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2000
• ISBN: 0815334370, 9780815334378
• Length: 403 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Women's Studies