Victorian and Edwardian Anti-Feminism, (4 Volume Set)

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.

Part 1 :  Education, Law, and Science
Chapter 1 : Lectures to Ladies on Practical Subjects
Chapter 2 : Law for Ladies
Chapter 3 : The Over-Education of Women
Chapter 4 : The Intellect of Women
Chapter 5 : Political Establishment for Young Ladies
Chapter 6 : Women Graduates
Chapter 7 : Sex in Mind and in Education
Chapter 8 : The Higher Education of Woman
Chapter 9 : The Physical Insensibility of Woman
Chapter 10 : University Degrees for Women :  The Case Against
Chapter 11 : Women at Oxford and Cambridge

Part 2 :  Working, Professional, and Spiritual Women
Chapter 12 : ‘Female Labour : Fraser’s Magazine
Chapter 13 : Why are Women Redundant?
Chapter 14 : ‘What is Woman’s Work?
Chapter 15 : Where Women are The Wage-Earners :  Life and Labour in Dundee
Chapter 16 : Women and Work
Chapter 17 : Married Women and The Factory Law
Chapter 18 : The Prospects of Women as Brain Workers : The Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 19 : The Coming Order in The Church of Christ : The Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 20 : Male and Female Created He Them : The Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 21 : The Coming Order in The Church of Christ II : The Nineteenth Century and After,

Part 3 :  Marriage, MoTherhood and Domesticity
Chapter 22 : Rights and Wrongs of Women : Household Words
Chapter 23 : Man’s Might and Woman’s Right
Chapter 24 : Our Single Women : North British Review
Chapter 25 : ‘Wives : Saturday Review
Chapter 26 : A New View of The Surplus of Women
Chapter 27 : Why Women are Ceasing to Marry
Chapter 28 : The Dignity of Love
Chapter 29 : The Degradation of Woman
Chapter 30 : Is it Degradation?
Chapter 31 : The Dignity of Love
Chapter 32 : The Maternal in Politics
Chapter 33 : Decadence and Civilisation : The Hibbert Journal
Chapter 34 : Spinsters in The Making- Types 1.- The College Woman
Chapter 35 : At The Cross-Roads : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 36 : Why We Oppose Women Suffrage
Chapter 37 : The Superfluous Woman :  Her Cause and Cure : Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 38 : Feminism and Depopulation : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 39 : Undated postcard :  ‘Mummy’s a Suffragette

Part 4 :  Satire
Chapter 40 : Bloomeriana : Punch
Chapter 41 : Bloomerism … by Thomas Snarlyle
Chapter 42 : A Poser for a Bloomer
Chapter 43 : The Bloomer Ball
Chapter 44 : Bloomerism
Chapter 45 : Bloomerism - An American Custom
Chapter 46 : A Probable Incident if That Bloomerism isn’t Put Down
Chapter 47 : One of The Delightful Results of Bloomerism
Chapter 48 : The Ex-Unprotected Female
Chapter 49 : ‘Sucking Pigs : Household Words
Chapter 50 : ‘Efficiency of Female Police : in ‘The The Ladies of Creation
Chapter 51 : The Parliamentary Female : ‘Mary Protecting The Weaker Sex
Chapter 52 : Passing Faces : Household Words
Chapter 53 : A Gentleman of Influence
Chapter 54 : The Ladies’ Advocate
Chapter 55 : Probably The Next Absurdity
Chapter 56 : The Girl of The Period
Chapter 57 : ‘Mrs Punch’s Letters to Her Daughter’
Chapter 58 : ‘Is Woman a Human Being and Immortal?
Chapter 59 : ‘What it Will Soon Come To
Chapter 60 : ‘Donna Quixote : Punch cartoon and poem
Chapter 61 : Passionate Female Literary Types
Chapter 62 : The Weaker Sex
Chapter 63 : Our Suffrajests
Chapter 64 : Cross-Examining a Suffragist
Chapter 65 : Woman, Woman Everywhere
Chapter 66 : The Brawling BroTherhood
Chapter 67 : Women in Parliament : Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 68 : The Storming of The Bastille : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 69 : Spoof Suffrage Society membership card

Part 5 :  Social Change and Leisure
Chapter 70 : Rights and Condition of Women
Chapter 71 : The Social Position of Woman
Chapter 72 : Woman’s Emancipation
Chapter 73 : Lecture at The Strong-Minded Women’s Club
Chapter 74 : The Condition of Women : Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Chapter 75 : A Fear for The Future : Fraser’s Magazine
Chapter 76 : A Word to Women : Temple Bar
Chapter 77 : Woman and Her Critics
Chapter 78 : The Priesthood of Woman
Chapter 79 : The Future of Woman
Chapter 80 : Ideal Women
Chapter 81 : Clever Women : Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Chapter 82 : Mr Mill on The Subjection of Women : Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Chapter 83 : The Modern Revolt : Macmillan’s Magazine
Chapter 84 : Modern Man-Haters
Chapter 85 : Woman’s Place in The Economy of Creation
Chapter 86 : The Grievances of Women
Chapter 87 : Emancipated Women : Ourselves :  Essays on Women
Chapter 88 : The Future Supremacy of Women
Chapter 89 : The Proposed Subjection of Men
Chapter 90 : The Characteristics of English Women
Chapter 91 : The Threatened Abdication of Man
Chapter 92 : Women of To-day, Yesterday, and To-morrow
Chapter 93 : The Judicial Shock to Marriage
Chapter 94 : The Wild Women as Social Insurgents
Chapter 95 : The Wild Women, No : 1 :  As Politicians
Chapter 96 : The Partisans of The Wild Women
Chapter 97 : A Picture of The Past : Nineteenth Century
Chapter 98 : The Tyranny of Woman
Chapter 99 : Manners and Customs
Chapter 100 : Woman as an Athlete
Chapter 101 : Woman as an Athlete :  A Rejoinder
Chapter 102 : The Woman Question’ and ‘Socialism and Sex : The Ethic of Freethought and OTher Addresses
Chapter 103 : The Deleterious Effect of Americanisation Upon Women
Chapter 104 : The Fall of Woman : Contemporary Review
Chapter 105 : Review of The Freedom of Women, The Positivist Review
Chapter 106 : Civil War - Want of Cohesion Among Women : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 107 : On Nunneries : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 108 : The Women’s Achievement
Chapter 109 : Woman and Morality : Nineteenth Century and After

Part 6 :  Literature
Chapter 110 : Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
Chapter 111 : Plain Words on The Woman Question
Chapter 112 : The Strike of a Sex
Chapter 113 : The Modern Malignant II :  The Malignant in Literature
Chapter 114 : The Anti-Marriage League : Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Chapter 115 : The Psychology of Feminism : Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Chapter 116 : The Sins of Ann Veronica : The Positivist Review
Chapter 117 : On Women Poets : The Nineteenth Century and After

Part 7 :  Anti-Suffragists
Chapter 118 : Woman’s Mission
Chapter 119 : The Great Unrepresented : Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Chapter 120 : Franchise for The Ladies
Chapter 121 : Womanhood Suffrage
Chapter 122 : Mill on The Subjection of Women
Chapter 123 : Woman’s Suffrage
Chapter 124 : Women Voters
Chapter 125 : Women
Chapter 126 : Female Suffrage
Chapter 127 : Women’s Suffrage
Chapter 128 : Women’s Suffrage : National Review
Chapter 129 : Conservatism and Female Suffrage : The National Review
Chapter 130 : ‘The Women’s Protest against Women’s Suffrage : The Spectator
Chapter 131 : Of Women in Assemblies : Nineteenth Century
Chapter 132 : A Woman’s Criticism of The Women’s Congress : Nineteenth Century
Chapter 133 : Women and Politics : Nineteenth Century
Chapter 134 : One Man One Suffragette
Chapter 135 : Women’s Suffrage :  Some Sociological Reasons for Opposing The Movement
Chapter 136 : A Woman’s Plea against Woman Suffrage : Nineteenth Century
Chapter 137 : Women and The Franchise : Edinburgh Review
Chapter 138 : The Women’s Anti-Suffrage Movement : Nineteenth Century
Chapter 139 : Votes for Women : The National Review
Chapter 140 : The Freedom of Women :  An Argument Against The Proposed Extension of The Suffrage to Women
Chapter 141 : Is Woman Suffrage Inevitable?
Chapter 142 : A Letter to Mr Heitland
Chapter 143 : Queen Victoria and Women’s Rights
Chapter 144 : Nature’s Reason Against Woman Suffrage
Chapter 145 : Women and The Suffrage : Nineteenth Century
Chapter 146 : Suffrage and Anti-suffrage :  A Woman Worker’s Appeal : The National Review
Chapter 147 : Woman Suffrage : The Quarterly Review
Chapter 148 : Plain Truths about Woman Suffrage
Chapter 149 : Woman Suffrage :  A National Danger
Chapter 150 : Anti Suffrage League Meeting Report
Chapter 151 : Women’s Suffrage and The National Welfare
Chapter 152 : Bi-Sexual Suffrage : The Saturday Review
Chapter 153 : ‘The Suffrage Debate : Spectator
Chapter 154 : Pageantry and Politics : Nineteenth Century
Chapter 155 : Letter from Miss Octavia Hill, Women and The Suffrage
Chapter 156 : ‘The Anti-Suffrage Outdoor Campaign : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 157 : Woman Suffrage :  Its Dangers and Delusions
Chapter 158 : Economic Criticism of Woman Suffrage : Westminster Review
Chapter 159 : ‘Votes for Ladies : The Eye Witness
Chapter 160 : ‘The Women’s Bill : The Saturday Review
Chapter 161 : ‘The Ladies’ Raid : The Eye Witness
Chapter 162 : Correspondence on publicity strategies, The Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 163 : ‘JKP : ‘A Certain Woman : The Eye Witness
Chapter 164 : ‘A Leap-Year Proposal : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 165 : ‘Desperate Cases and Desperate Remedies
Chapter 166 : Edith Sellers, ‘Where Women Sit in Parliament : Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 167 : ‘Unmasked : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 168 : Arthur Charles Gronno, The Woman MP :  A Peril to The Country
Chapter 169 : Selections from The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for The Use of Speakers, Campaigns Committee of The National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage
Chapter 170 : ‘Whey Women SHOULD NOT have The Vote :  From Woman’s Point of View : The Pall Mall Magazin
Chapter 171 : Photo of a stall, Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 172 : ‘Anti Suffrage Activity : Anti-Suffrage Review,

Part 8 :  Feminism and Militancy
Chapter 173 : ‘A Woman’s Rights Organs : The Saturday Review
Chapter 174 : Anti-Feminism
Chapter 175 : Feminism and Female Suffrage
Chapter 176 : The True Gospel of Feminism :  A Reply to Mr Belfort Bax
Chapter 177 : Mr Belfort Bax Replies to his Critics
Chapter 178 : Seems So :  The Suffragettes
Chapter 179 : Then and Now : Nineteenth Century
Chapter 180 : Is The New Woman Helping Woman? : The National Review
Chapter 181 : Feminine Versus Feminist
Chapter 182 : ‘Correspondences on The Suffragettes : The Eye Witness
Chapter 183 : ‘The Suffragette’s Dream : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 184 : Suffragette Island : The Saturday Review
Chapter 185 : The Fraud of Feminism
Chapter 186 : The Need for Anti-feminist Action
Chapter 187 : The Soul of a Suffragette
Chapter 188 : The Feminist Movement : The Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 189 : Modern Feminism and Sex Antagonism
Chapter 190 : By Favour of The Militants
Chapter 191 : The Majesty of The Law
Chapter 192 : Feminism
Chapter 193 : Review of books by Colquhoun, Bax, Swanwick, Hutchins, Times Literary Supplement

Part 9 :  Constructive and ‘modern’ anti-feminism
Chapter 194 : A Woman’s Thoughts about Women
Chapter 195 : A Methodist Argument Against The Emancipation of Women : Englishwoman’s Review
Chapter 196 : Positive Principles for Anti-Suffragists
Chapter 197 : The Injustice of Votes for Women
Chapter 198 : The Representation of Women :  A Consultative Chamber of Women
Chapter 199 : The Case of The Anti-Feminists
Chapter 200 : Beatrice Tina and The Almighty
Chapter 201 : A Proposed Woman’s Council : The National Review
Chapter 202 : The Unimportance of The Women’s Movement : The Freewoman
Chapter 203 : The New Sesame and Lilies : The English Review,
Chapter 204 : Man : The English Review
Chapter 205 : ‘Woman :  A Reply to Man : The English Review
Chapter 206 : A Defence of Men
Chapter 207 : Notes of The Week
Chapter 208 : Responses to Orage’s notes of The week
Chapter 209 : Will Men Govern when Women have The Vote?
Chapter 210 : Notes of The Week
Chapter 211 : Women and The Caucus
Chapter 212 : Voice for Women :  Without Votes : The Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 213 : Anti Suffrage : Return Passage

Part 10 :  War
Chapter 214 : To Rule or to Serve?
Chapter 215 : Patriotism :  At a Price
Chapter 216 : Woman’s Place : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 217 : ‘Votes for Women with Half The Men Away : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 218 : War and Militancy’ review of A : E : Metcalf’s Women’s Effort :  A Chronicle of British Women’s Fifty Years Struggle for Citizenship, Times Literary Supplement
Chapter 219 : Personal statements on suffrage and war, from A : V : Dicey, Mary Ward, Harold Owen, John Massie, Gladys Pott, and Heber Hart, Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 220 : Let Women Say! An Appeal to The House of Lords : The Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 221 : ‘Woman Suffrage : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 222 : Boy and Girl War Products Their Reconstruction : Nineteenth Century and After

Part 11 :  After Suffrage
Chapter 223 : ‘Epilogue : Anti-Suffrage Review
Chapter 224 : A Skilled Labourer, Female Intemperance
Chapter 225 : An Unknown Quantity :  The Woman Voter
Chapter 226 : The Manufacture of Girl-Loafers
Chapter 227 : Women Electors and Foreign Affairs : The National Review
Chapter 228 : On Women Poets : The Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 229 : The Voteless Women of France : The National Review
Chapter 230 : No Women as Priests :  A Famous "Suffragette" on The Bishop’s Dictum
Chapter 231 : No Women Priests :  A Woman Novelist Upholds The Bishop