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.
Part I: 1852 - 1890
Men's Rights Convention at -: Extrordinary Proceedings, Exciting Scenes, and Curious Speeches,Chericot
Authentic Particulars of Alarming Disturbances Consequent on the Late Men's Rights Convention at, Chericot
Intellectual Culture of Woman, Alexander H. Sands
Education of the Female Sex
Woman, Her Rights, Wrongs, Privileges, and Responsibilities: Containing a Sketch of Her Position in Education, L.P. Brockett
Woman's Rights Viewed Physiologically and Historically
Citizenship, its Rights and Duties: Woman Suffrage, David Augustus Straker
The Present Legal Rights of Women (October 1890), Samuel Williams Cooper
Part II: 1898 - 1918
The Unquiet Sex: Third Paper - Women and Reforms, Helen Watterson Moody
When the College is Hurtful to a Girl, S. Weir Mitchell
The Restless Woman, J. Cardinal Gibbons
The Irresponsible Woman and the Friendless Child, Ida M. Tarbell
The Renaissance of Woman, Arthur Stringer
The Brute in Man as an Argument Against Feminism
Feminism and Socialism, Fred Perry Powers
Some Considerations Affecting the Replacement of Men by Women Workers, Josephine Goldmark
Part III: 1924 - 1932
Are Women's Clubs Used by Bolshevists?, Henry Ford
The Unfemale Feminine, Anthony Bertram
Feminism Destructive of Woman's Happiness, Gina Lombroso Ferrero
Fanatical Females, John Leonard Cole
Sex Inferiority, Ruth Allison Hudnut
Cocksure Women and Hensure Men, Harry T. Moore
Are Ten Too Many?, Marjorie Wells
A Woman's Invasion of a Famous Public School and How Men Endured It
Part IV: 1945 - 1956
An Objective View, S.H. Halford
Trend of National Intelligence: Loss of Sexual Instinct by the Highly Educated Woman, S.H. Halford
My Great-Grandmothers Were Happy, Priscilla Robertson
The Passage Through College, Mervin B. Freeman
Women, Husbands, and History, Adlai E. Stevenson
The Found Generation, David Riesman
Part V: 1968 - 1982
Sex Unwanted
The Abortion Debate, Ralph B. Potter, Jr.
Excerpts from Sexual Suicide, George Glider
Excerpts from The Total Woman,Marabel Morgan
Lord Teach Me to Submit, Anita Bryant
The Feminist Movement, Jerry Falwell
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Feminism, Midge Decter
Part VI: 1985 - 1993
The Feminist Mistake: Sexual Equality and the Decline of the American Military, Jean Yarbrough
The International Patriarchy, Arne Saknussemm
The Failure of Feminism, Kay Ebling
Wrong on Rape: Neither Naming Rape Victims Against Their Will, Nor Broadening the Definition of Rape to Include Seduction, Helps the Cause of Feminism
Why I Am Not a Feminist: Some Remarks on the Problem of Gender Identity in the U.S. and Poland, Mira Marody
Acknowledgments
Biography
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).
