Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies

Feminism and Sex-Extinction

"The sexual love which has its origin in what is external and accidental may easily be turned to hate, a kind of madness that is nourished on discord; but that love, on the other hand, is lasting which has its source in freedom of soul and in the will to bear and bring up chil...

Chapters

16. CHAPTER IX

"The Earth never tires.... Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd; I swear to you there are Divine Thi...

13. CHAPTER VI

The paths alike of progress and of happiness lie, obviously, in the ever further dignifying and enhancement of the functions of home and of wifehood, by way of every further int...

12. CHAPTER V

"_In conjunction with any other beings but men, women would have been angels; but with men they are just women, which when all is said and done, is much the same thing._"--De Li...

14. CHAPTER VII

In _Woman and Labour_, Miss Schreiner laments as follows, picturesquely but speciously: "Our spinning-wheels are all broken; in a thousand huge buildings steam-driven looms, gui...

15. CHAPTER VIII

Since women possess native gifts of highly-differentiated faculties and aptitudes, not only their greatest effectiveness, but, too, their well-being and happiness lie in finding...

6. CHAPTER IV

"Oh, I must feel your brain prompt mine, Your heart anticipate my heart, You must be just before, in fine, See and make me see, for your part, New depths of the Divine!"

7. CHAPTER V

Mendel found that the hybrid plants resulting from his cross-breedings of Dominants with Recessives produced, when mated with similar hybrids, sex-cells of pure Dominant and sex...

11. CHAPTER IV

"_My state is like the lightning's light-- Now it shines forth, and now 'tis gone from sight. At times, amid the heavens I find my seat; At others, I am lower than my feet._"

10. CHAPTER III

Feminist leaders have shown themselves deplorably indifferent alike to biological and to sociological law. Losing sight of the truth that the intrinsic and eternal function of H...

3. CHAPTER I

"The sexual love which has its origin in what is external and accidental may easily be turned to hate, a kind of madness that is nourished on discord; but that love, on the othe...

9. CHAPTER II

"I am for you and you are for me, Not only for your own sake, but for others' sakes, Envelop'd in you, sleep great heroes and bards, They refuse to awake at the touch of any man...

5. CHAPTER III

"The idea that the female is naturally and really the superior sex seems incredible, and only the most liberal and emancipated minds, possessed of a large store of biological in...

4. CHAPTER II

"The most beautiful witness to the Evolution of Man is the Mind of a little child.... It was ages before Darwin or Lamarck or Lucretius, that Maternity, bending over the hollowe...

8. CHAPTER I

"This is the function of our and every age, to grasp the knowledge already existing, to make it our own, and in so doing to develop it further and raise it to a higher level. In...

2. BOOK II

1. BOOK I