This new collection from Routledge and Edition Synapse provides the documentary backdrop to this growing critical interest in anti-feminism. Based on the premise that to understand the social and intellectual context of the women’s movement and feminism, it is crucial that all contributions to the debate be explored, and not just those of the ‘winning side’, the collection meets an urgent need to restore to the historical record a sense of how feminism was a deeply marginalized position, and to remember that anti-feminism in many cases better represents public opinion concerning the gender politics of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Contents
PROVISIONAL CONTENTS
Part 1: Education, Law, and Science
1. ‘Lectures to Ladies on Practical Subjects’, Saturday Review, 15 December 1855, p. 116.
2. ‘Law for Ladies’, Saturday Review, 24 May 1856, pp. 77–8.
3. ‘The Over-Education of Women’, Saturday Review, 8 May 1858, pp. 467–8.
4. ‘The Intellect of Women’, Saturday Review, 8 October 1859, pp. 417–18.
5. ‘Political Establishment for Young Ladies’, Punch, 6 June 1868, p. 242.
6. ‘Women Graduates’, Saturday Review, 5 July 1873, pp. 5–7.
7. Henry Maudsley, ‘Sex in Mind and in Education’, Fortnightly Review, 1 April 1874, pp. 466–83.
8. Eliza Lynn Linton, ‘The Higher Education of Woman’, Fortnightly Review, October 1886, pp. 498–510.
9. Cesare Lombroso, ‘The Physical Insensibility of Woman’, Fortnightly Review, 1892, pp. 354–7.
10. Bertha J. Johnson, ‘University Degrees for Women: The Case Against’, The Humanitarian, 8, 1896, pp. 257–63.
11. ‘Women at Oxford and Cambridge’, The Quarterly Review, October 1897, pp. 529–51.
Part 2: Working, Professional, and Spiritual Women
12. ‘Female Lquo;, Fraser’s Magazine, March 1860, pp. 359–71.
13. [W. R. Greg], ‘Why are Women Redundant?’, National Review, April 1862, pp. 434–60.
14. ‘What is Woman’s Work?’, The Saturday Review, 15 February 1868, pp. 197–8.
15. S. H. Swinny, ‘Where Women are the Wage-Earners: Life and Labour in Dundee’, The Positivist Review, 1 June 1906, pp. 128–34.
16. Anon., ‘Women and Work’, The Saturday Review, 28 December 1907, 787–8.
17. Married Women and the Factory Law (1909) (Anti-Suffrage League pamphlet).
18. Janet E. Courtney, ‘The Prospects of Women as Brain Workers’, The Nineteenth Century and After, November 1915, pp. 1284–93.
19. E. Picton-Turberville, ‘The Coming Order in the Church of Christ’, The Nineteenth Century and After, September 1916, pp. 521–30.
20. Athelstan Riley, ‘Male and Female Created He Them’, The Ninet...
