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9.Frederick Douglass, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass,

vol. 4,ed. Philip S. Foner (New York: International Publishers, 1975),p. 194.

10.Ibid., p. 195.

11.Ibid., p. 492.

12.Ibid., p. 493.

13.Maimonides, Sex Ethics of Maimonides , pp. 9 7 - 9 8 .

14. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, undated m s., Schlesinger L ibrary,

cited by Linda Gordon, Woman's B ody , Woman's R ight (New

York: Grossman Publishers, 1976), p. 145.

15. Phyllis Schlafly, The P ow er o f the P ositive Woman (New Rochelle, N . Y.: Arlington House Publishers, 1977), p. 47.

5. T h e C o m in g G y n o c id e

1. John Langdon Davies, A Short History of Women, cited by V irginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (New York: Harcourt, Brace

& W orld, 1957), p. 116.

2. Adolf H itler, 1934, cited by Clifford Kirkpatrick, Nazi Germany: Its Women and Family Life (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mer-rill Com pany, 1938), pp. 111-12.

3. W. Andrew Achenbaum, Old Age in the New Land (Baltimore:

T he Johns Hopkins U niversity Press, 1979), p. 94.

4. Bruce C. Vladeck, Unloving Care: The Nursing Home Tragedy

(New York: Basic Books, 1980), p. 3.

5. Ibid., p. 4.

6. M uriel N ellis, The Female Fix (New York: Penguin Books,

1981), p. 68.

7. Ibid., pp. 1-2.

8. Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Regulating the

Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (New York: Vintage Books,

1972), p. 138.

9. Roland A. Chilton, Consequences of a State Suitable Home Law fo r

ADC Families in Florida (Tallahassee: Florida State University/

Institute for Social Research, 1968), p. 65, cited in Piven and

Cloward, Regulating the Poor , p. 140.

10. Linda Gordon, Woman's Body , Woman's Right (New York:

Grossman Publishers, 1976), p. 311.

11. W illiam Acton, Prostitution (New York: Frederick A. Praeger,

Publishers, 1969), p. 26.

12. Josephine Butler, cited by Kathleen B arry, Female Sexual Slavery (Englewood Cliffs, N. J .: Prentice-Hall, 1979), p. 25.

13. Elizabeth C ady Stanton, “The Solitude of S elf, ” in History

of Woman Suffrage , vol. IV , ed. Susan B. Anthony and Ida

Husted H arper (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), p. 189.

14. Abram Tertz, The Trial Begins , cited by Richard Lourie, Letters

to the Future: An Approach to Sinyavsky-Tertz (Ithaca, N . Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975), p. 91.

15. Hipponax of Ephesus, cited by Mary R. Lefkowitz and

Maureen B. Fant, ed., Women in Greece and Rome (Toronto:

Samuel-Stevens, 1977), p. 18.

6. A n t ife m in ism

1. Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (New Rochelle, N . Y.: Arlington House Publishers, 1977), p. 166.

2. Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass ’ Paper , October 30,

1851, Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights , ed. Philip S. Foner

(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976), p. 55.

Index

Abortion, 7 1 - 1 0 5

Adam, 144, 192

antifeminism and, 197

Adaptation to prevailing rule, 19

and Communists, 111

Aeschylus, 42

decriminalization of, 9 4 -9 5 , 97

Affirm ative action, 197

dissociation from other women

Aid to Families with Dependent

having had, 73

Children (AFDC), 16 5 -6 7

and hatred, 7 5 -7 7

American Civil Liberties Union,

and hysteria o f men, 74

79 n

illegal, 7 1 - 7 7 , 9 8 - 9 9

Amos, 110

legalized, 9 7 -9 8

Antifeminism, 195 -2 3 7

and Monroe, 18

male-dominant model of, 202,

and Mormon women, 118

2 1 0 - 1 5

and protection o f men’s rights,

separate-but-equal model of,

88

2 0 2 -4 , 215

rape and, 73, 9 9n

right-wing women and, 2 3 1 -3 7

return to illegal, 99, 171, 172

woman-superior model of, 202,

as right, 97

2 0 4 -1 0 , 2 1 5 - 1 6

right-wing view of, 32 -3 3

Anti-Semitism

right-wing women risking illegal,

A d olf Hitler and, 122, 148

104

Christian Right and, 139, 142

right-wing women’s view of

fundamentalist expression of, 33

legal, 10 2 -3

Holocaust and, 12 2 -2 3 , 138

in sixties, 9 4 -9 5 , 9 9 - 1 0 0

Jesus Christ and, 33

social effects o f prohibiting, 192

and Jew s depicted as rapists, 126

as torture for sex, 74

Ku Klux Klan and, 1 1 2 - 1 8 , 142

use o f contraceptives, married

Nazism and, 142#, 1 4 8 -4 9

women and return to illegal,

as passion, 121

2 3 2 » -3 3 »

See also Jew s

at w ill, 149

Asians, 155

See also Birth control; Pregnancy

Assimilation o f Jew s, 14 0 -4 1

Abraham, 131, 137

Austen, Jane, 39

Acton, William, 180

Actress as woman empowered to