Andrea Dworkin: Right-wing Women

Babies, seeChildren

act, 1 7 - 1 8

Bates, Jerom e, 72

Battery

Califano, Joseph A ., J r., 99

cause of, 143

Carter, Jimmy, 99

incidence of, 223

Cassandra(Nightingale), 38, 45

See alsoViolence

Cesarean sections, 188

Beecher, Henry Ward, 57#

Charcot, Jean Martin, 152

Beauvoir, Simone de, 44

Chesler, Phyllis, 15

Birth control, 41, 93, 149-50*

Children, 38

232#-33#

and conservatism o f women,

criminal and illegal abortions

1 3 -14

among married women,

effects o f having, 143-48

232#-33#

forcing women to have, 33(see

illegal abortions and illegal, 73

alsoForced sex; Intercourse;

Nazis and, 148, 149

Pregnancy)

principle of opposition to, 103

God and bearing, 144, 145

See alsoAbortion; Pregnancy

of the sixties, 94

Blacks

welfare for women and their dewith dependent children, 165

pendents, 165-69, 173

Douglass on, finally accepted by

women refusing to bear, deservwhites, 123-24

ing to die, 105

hatred of, as passion, 121

Christ,seeJesus Christ

hurt by, and dying from illegal

Christianity

abortions, 9 8 -9 9

Paul and institutional, 110,

motherhood and respect for, 143

125-27, 135-38

percent o f old, as percent o f pop­

See alsoGod; Jesus Christ

ulation, 155

Circumcision, 126

and population control, 148, 149,

Civil rights, 86

151

marital law as violating, 7 8 -7 9

and sixties counterculture, 89, 92

Clafin, Tennessee, 57

and Southern welfare depart­

Clitoridectomies, 162

ments, 162-63

Cloward, Richard A ., 162, 167

and welfare, 162-63, 168-72

Colette, 85

Bless This House(Bryant and Green),

Communist Manifesto(Marx and

23, 27

Engels), 56-57

Bodies

Communists, 111, 112

control over own, as premise of

Comstock Law (1872), 57

feminist movement, 97

Conservatism, 13 -17

See alsoFeminism; Women’s

See also specific related topics

movement

Contraception, 41, 93, 149-50,

Brothel model

232#-33#

of social control and sexual use,

Corea, Gena, 181#, 187#

174-85

Counterculture, 9 1 - 9 7

See alsoProstitution

Crawford, Alan, 142#

Bryant, Anita, 23, 2 6 -2 9 , 40 -4 3

Creationism, 142#

Butler, Josephine, 182—83

Creative intelligence, 50-52

Crimes Against Women: Proceedings o f

as o ff limits, 4 8 - 4 9

the International Tribunal

and poverty, 170

(Russell and Van de Ven),

and right-wing Jew s, 140

l\n

Egg

Criminal Abortion(Bates and

contraception “killing, ” 233»

Zawadski), 72

effects o f bringing each to term,

1 7 1 -7 2

legal rights of, 151

Darwin, Charles, 142»

male and fertilized, 7 4 -7 5

David (Hebrew king), 134, 137

and Right to Life groups, 193

Death, 1 8 - 1 9

in vitro fertilization of, 192

abortion and, 104, 105(see also

See alsoFetus

Abortion)

Elderly, the,seeOld, the

homosexuals as w orthy of, 111,

Eliot, George, 39

119

Employment, suitable, 167

o f minorities, 9 8 -9 9

Epithets used against women,

racism and, 155

199 -2 0 2

solution o f religion to not want­

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

ing, 1 9 0 -9 4

antifeminism and opposition to,

See alsoMurder

197

Decriminalization o f abortion,

Bryant on, 29 n

9 4 -9 5 , 97

defeat of, 236

DeCrow, Karen, 29 n

and girls going to war, 116

D ’Hericourt, Jenny P., 62, 65, 66

and legalized abortion, 32

Democratic Party, 99

Mississippi women’s view of,

Divine law, 78

117

See alsoGod; Jesus Christ

Mormon women’s view of, 118

Doctors, 15 7 -6 2

purpose of, 98 n

Douglass, Frederick, 12 3 -2 4 , 208

and reproductive freedom,

Dreams o f women, 45

1 1 2 - 1 3

Drugs, 173

Schlafly and, 29, 30

in nursing homes, 15 5 -5 6

Eve, 14 4 -4 5

among women, 15 6 -6 2

Dubrovsky, G ertrude, 154»

Family

Klan protection of, 114, 115

Economic exploitation (force, coer­

See alsoMothers