Feminism seems to me its next of kin; still we may not call the woman who assails the soap boxes--even those that antic about the White House gates--by the opprobrious terms of adventuress.
They are the real interests of feminism because they have produced it.
It is not sufficiently realized that while there has been a rise of feminism there has also been a great change in the status of children, a change that makes their care far more difficult than in the past.
Whether or not it fits woman to be a housewife of the traditional kind, feminism is certain to develop further.
But as was shown in the first chapter, industry and feminism have given woman a taste of other kinds of life and have developed her individual points of character and abilities.
That there is a nondomestic type of woman to-day is due to the rise of feminism and the fascination of industry.
Which type is the better woman depends upon the point of view, but it is safe to say that feminismand the industrial world are making it harder and harder for an increasing number of women to settle down to home-keeping.
Men, who always take themselves as seriously as children, have been easy enough to frighten by means of a feminism that seems to take itself seriously.
Now his paralysis would defeat not only the purposes of feminism, but also the sole purpose of woman's conduct toward man from Eve's time to ours, a course of which feminism is only a modern and consistent example.
It is very difficult, from the standpoint of natural logic, to sympathize with moderate feminism, one could more easily accept feminism in excess.
For feminism reigns there, especially among inferior species and in insects.
Sexual Dimorphism and Feminism Inferiority and superiority of the female as shown in animal species.
With flies, feminism is brought frankly into the love mechanism.
The bonellie, which is one of the most definite examples of dimorphism, is also an example of the singular feminism which one normally finds in nature.
Thus the victory of the allied nations will mean the fruition of much of the feminism that is a phase of humanism.
Militarism and feminism are counter currents in the tide of history.
When this book was written, Feminism was demanding votes, and, not getting them at once, became naughty, and tied itself to the House of Commons or pushed policemen over.
Rendell, the first classical scholar, was attached to what the others called the ineffable effs--Fabianism, Feminism and Faith.
The difficulty will be solved by considering separately the idea of feminism and the idea of the Femmes Savantes, and by cavilling at the word "savant," which has recently come to have a very definite significance.
How are the Femmes Savantes and Feminism to be reconciled?
VIII In aiming at Hermaphrodism, Feminism is contriving not only at frustration of all that Evolution has achieved in Life and Faculty, but it is making for the extinction of Life itself.
XIII Feminism repudiates, from time to time, the charge against it of belittling Motherhood.
The aims of Feminism are being realised in unforeseen developments.
Feminism in unmaking the mother, is undoing the labours of countless ages of evolutionary advance.
Thus, albeit sincerely despising and decrying this, Feminism has nevertheless indirectly fostered the growth of Effeminacy.
I Of what order is this Woman-half of Mind which Feminism seeks to extinguish?
V Another disastrous blunder of Feminism is to make for equal wage for men and women.
Because where formerly symptoms of Feminism attacked individuals only--and these mainly the mature and eccentric--now the young and the normal are being indoctrinated wholesale.
Germany, as we know, is the country where the claims of Masculinism are most loudly asserted, and those of Feminismtreated with most contempt.
Feminism has never encountered an aggressive and self-conscious Masculinism.
There is, however, a temptation for those among us who have all their lives been working in the cause of Feminism to belittle the future possibilities of Masculinism.
But I may perhaps be allowed to mention that it has seemed to some observers that there is a connection between the Feminism of America and the American mania for hasty laws which will not, and often cannot, be carried out in practice.
Now, however, when the claims of Feminism are becoming practically recognised in our social life, and some of its largest demands are being granted, it is interesting to observe the appearance of a new attitude.
We realise, for one thing, how futile it is for Feminism to adopt the garb of masculine militancy.
Whenever, as in the present great European War, brute force becomes temporarily predominant, the causes associated with Feminism are roughly pushed into the background.
Yet, to-day, in spite of all our homage to Feminism and Eugenics, we witness the greatest war of the world.
There is the fatally seamy side of be-praised Militarism, and there Feminism has a triumphant argument.
Are you sure she's in bad shape--that she's got anything more than a bad attack of Feminism of the Species in its most virulent form?
George Sand had brought feminism within the reach of all women.
Feminism is breaking that down, and we are already getting some of the results.
The whole purpose of Feminism is to make the conditions of life the same for men and women.
During the spread of Feminism manners have coarsened, modesty is disappearing, the fiction and drama of the day familiarize the young with vice under the thin pretext of fortifying virtue.
But the period of aggressive Feminism coincides with decrees of fashion that are designed to expose as much of the female figure as the police will permit.
IV Feminism is a declaration of sex war, Edna Kenton proclaims.
The interval between these two writers is the period during which Feminism has been spreading like an epidemic.
A considerable period elapsed before they could leave, because of the complex discussion concerning feminism which was delicately raging round the edge of the table.
Feminism is a natural phenomenon; it was unavoidable.
The strange and side-splitting effects of centrifugal force had transformed about a hundred indifferent young men and women into ardent and convinced supporters of feminism in its most advanced form.
This was only the beginning of such a campaign of radical propaganda as feminism never knew before.
And, besides, she felt constrained to point out that feminism meant worlds more than a mere vote.
In the cause of feminism she did pioneer work quite amazing in its challenge of contemporary opinion and in its tempered wisdom.
Certainly no other defense offeminism even approached the work of M.
Sidenote: Samuel Richardson] Samuel Richardson was the first to make feminism an issue in fiction.
Manouvrier, the distinguished anthropologist, who carries feminism to its extreme point in the scientific sphere, yet recognizes the fundamental fact that "a woman's part is to make children.
There is possible no Eugenic Feminismwhich shall satisfy those whose simple argument is that woman must have what she wants, just as man must.
Feminism as with a religious dogma, or else is nervously afraid of offending others who are.
The outrageous application of the principles, if such you may call them, of Sentimental Feminism in this country in the case of the suffragettes, has made English justice and penal administration the laughing-stock of the world.
And, needless to say, the influence of Political and Sentimental Feminism was too strong to allow the capital sentence to be carried out, even with such a fiendish wretch as this.
Logically, as we shall have occasion to insist upon later on, the principles professedly at the root of Political Feminism are in flagrant contradiction with any that can justify Sentimental Feminism.
Anyone desirous of testing the truth of the above statement has only to read the suffragette papers and other expositions of the gospel of Feminism as held by its most devoted advocates.
What I have called, however, the sentimental aspect of Modern Feminism undoubtedly did make some headway in public opinion by the end of the eighteenth century, and grew in volume during the early years of the nineteenth century.
That it should be necessary to point out these things in so many words is a striking illustration of the moral and intellectual atrophy produced by Feminism in the public mind.
Modern Feminism has always professed to be a movement for political and social equality between the sexes.
There is more than one popular prejudice which obscures the meaning and significance of Modern Feminism with many people.
Hence the terrific force Feminism has obtained in the world of the early twentieth century.
That no satisfactory formulation of the psychology of the movement of Feminism has yet been offered is undoubtedly true.
But the advance guards of feminism are beginning to recognize that there are all-essential relationships between the sexes, and that only in sex cooperation can there be any permanent solution of the great questions.
Have you ever considered the sociological consequences of that very real disintegration of the "home" which an advancing feminism implies?
You argue that the case for feminism is as simple as the case for democracy; but is the case for democracy simple?
With that the topic of feminism was on the carpet and it was never thereafter abandoned.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feminism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
