The Future of the Women's Movement

Is it chaotic?—Knowledge and scope—What the world is losing—The spirit of the time a scientific one; women must share it—Action will follow knowledge—Is it to be thwarted action...

Importance of motherhood—Vocational training of women for motherhood a mistake—Whole human beings—Full development under Men’s domination impossible—Sentimentalists and Brutalit...

Man’s undoubted superiority—The handicap of motherhood—Woman’s battle a spiritual one—Domination by force is bad business—Foreign policy and war—Equality of service and equality...

Mr. Frederic Harrison and Prof. Dicey—Difficulties of governing others—Civil rights depend upon political rights—Illiberal arguments against women’s suffrage—Safety a delusion—P...

Effects of the denial of the vote—Legislation, administration, taxation—Status—The intolerable slur of disfranchisement—Direct effect of the vote—What women want—How Bills are m...

The domination of economic force—Woman’s natural handicap, motherhood—Woman’s artificial handicap, law and custom—_Laissez-faire_ abandoned—Case of the pit-brow girls—Opening up...

Neglected motherhood—King Log and King Stork—The Englishman’s almost absolute power over his wife—Socialistic legislation—Endowment of motherhood—Payment of wives—Man’s outlook...

The mother is generally the housewife—Convenient and economical—Bad conditions of housework—No reform without discontent—Motherhood and housewifery not inextricable—Co-operative...

Prostitution the most commercially profitable of women’s trades—Definition—Extent—Is it an evil?—Is it (1) necessary for health, or (2) necessary consequence of evil nature and...

Women’s crusade against prostitution, alcoholism, and war—Decay of Empires—Originally appetites, have become trades—Advertisement and finance—Vested interest in alcohol—Traffic...

Two ideals—Motherly qualities do not attract men—Weakness and dependence are not motherly—Women distrust men’s judgment of women—Women’s wiles—Social value of women’s qualities—...

No permanent opposition of sexes—Mr. Heape’s theory—Primitive man and woman are opposed—Men and women not the “same” nor “equal”—Effect of luxury—Mr. Heape’s nightmare: Men “bru...

Women’s war—Is men’s need greater?—War open and articulate—The Ladies’ Gallery—Sir Charles Grandison on the enemies of women—Militancy and the machine—The mob spirit—A revival d...

Adaptation—A man’s world difficult for women to live in—Men’s needs—The double standard—The child’s needs—Health of girls—Co-education—Teaching of sex—Parasitic daughters—The bi...

“New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we our...

“Ole Uncle S., sez he, ‘I guess It is a fact,’ sez he, ‘The surest plan to make a Man Is, Think him so, J. B., Ez much ez you or me!’”

“’Tis such, a tender thoughtfulness! So exquisite a care! Not to pile on our fair shoulders what we do not wish to bear! But, oh, most generous brother! let us look a little mor...

In the last chapter the question was put whether women are intellectually and morally inferior to men, and the conclusion was that this was a question incapable of solution, cer...

“Did you, too, O friend, suppose Democracy was only for elections, for politics, or for a party name? I say Democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its fl...

Who made the law thet hurts, John, _Heads I win,—ditto tails_? “J. B.” was on his shirts, John, Onless my memory fails. Ole Uncle S., sez he, “I guess (I’m good at thet),” sez h...

“And here I’ll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets: Ay, and amid this hurly, I intend, That all is done in reverent care of her; A...

“In the dark womb where I began My mother’s life made me a man; Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth; I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But th...

O the soap vat is a common thing! The pickle-tub is low! The loom and wheel have lost their grace In falling from the dwelling-place To mills where all may go! The bread-tray ne...

“Jenny, you know the city now. A child can tell the tale there, how Some things which are not yet enroll’d In market lists are bought and sold Even till the early Sunday light,...

Emil Reich, writing in 1908, said (_Woman through the Ages_, vol. ii. p. 247): “The women of the East lie under an adamant yoke of complete severity. It is in the West that the...

“A woman capable at all points to bear children, to guard them, to teach them, to turn them out strong and healthy citizens of the great world, stands at the farthest remove fro...

“… And, if we think of it, what does civilisation itself rest upon—and what object has it, with its religions, arts, schools, etc., but rich, luxuriant, varied Personalism? To t...

“God said to Adam: Thou shalt have dominion over all beasts; and herein would seem to consist his advantage and superiority. Now, since man has dominion also over woman, who can...

“They that have power to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmovèd, cold, and to temptation slow,—

“Decay,” said Seithenyn, “is one thing, and danger is another. Everything that is old must decay. That the embankment is old, I am free to confess; that it is somewhat rotten in...