184-86 (see also Mothers)
Room o f One's Own , A (Woolf), 147
male-dominant model of, 202,
Ross, Susan C., 79 n
2 1 0 -1 5
Rules, 22, 31
separate-but-equal model of,
20 2-4, 215
Safety, 22, 31
woman-superior model for, 202,
Sandbach, Mary, 125#
2 0 4 -10 , 2 1 5 - 1 6
Sappho, 147
Shange, Ntozake, 195
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 44, 121
Shelter, 22, 31
Saul (Hebrew king), 134
Sisterhood Is Powerful , 99
Schlafly, Phyllis, 2 9 -3 1 , 117, 145,
Slavery, 123
208
Snuff (film), 150
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 125#
Social control, see Sexual use
Schreiner, Olive, 51
Social environment, general de
Separate-but-equal model for social
scription of, 221, 223
control and sexual use,
Social Security Act (1935), 152
2 02-4, 215
Sperm, 41
Sex
Stalin, Joseph, 188
as labor o f women, 6 2 -6 9
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 59, 174,
women as, 40# {see also Forced
190
sex; Intercourse; Mothers;
Stapleton, Ruth Carter, 2 3 -2 5 , 28
Prostitution)
Steiner, George, 189, 194
Sex-class system, 22 1-2 7
Sterilization, 149, 168, 17 1-7 2 ,
Sex hatred, 121
192, 223
Sex labor, 6 2 -6 9
Strindberg, August, 125#
Sex segregation, 2 0 3 -4
Submission
Sexual domination
before greater strength, 2 1 2 - 1 3
Right and, 34
illegal abortion and, 105
See also Male domination
and nature o f force, 101
Sexual freedom, 6 0 -6 1
reasons for, 79, 193 (see also
and reproductive freedom, 29,
Pregnancy)
97, 1 1 2 -1 3 , 149
of right-wing women, 2 2 -2 9
Sexual harassment, 67
Subordination, internalized and
Sexual intelligence, 5 3 -5 6 , 5 8-59,
eroticized, 84
61
Suffering
Sexual liberation, 100-2
denied, 2 0 -2 1


in illegal abortion, 104, 105
Right promise to restrain, 21
Suicide
sexual coercion by, 78
of Monroe, 18
Virgin, the, 205
Stapleton attempt at, 24
Vladeck, Bruce C., 153, 154
of Woolf, 45
Supreme Court, 71, 73#, 97, 118
Survival, 63, 68, 69
Wages, unequal, 65-67
Walker, Alice, 60#
Talese, Gay, 170
Welfare system, 163-73
Technology to control reproduc
West, Rebecca, 100
tion, 181-88, 191-92
Wharton, Edith, 37
Tertz, Abram (Andrei Sinyavsky),
Whitman, Walt, 50
193
“Why Is the Negro Lynched? ”
Thackeray, William, 61-62
(Douglass), 124
Thinking Like a Woman (Fritz), 23
Wives
Tilton, Elizabeth, 57#
prostitution and, 56-62
Token women, 213-15
See also Marriage; Mothers;
Tolstoy, Leo, 205
Prostitution
Total Woman , The (Morgan), 23, 25,
Woman-centered sexuality, 81
40#, 233
Woman-superior model for social
Tradition, conforming to, 14
control and sexual use, 202,
204-10, 215-16
Unloving Care: The Nursing Home
Woman's Body, Woman's Right
Tragedy (Vladeck), 153
(Gordon), 168
Women , Money , and Power (Chesler
Value(s)
and Goodman), 15
based on conformity, 81
Women’s movement, 29
catering to system of, 14, 21, 25
antifeminism opposing, 217-20
human dignity as, 219-20
male-dominant model used to
necessity for women to be destop, 210-17
fined in terms of having
a minister’s view of, 111
children as, see Mothers
and Nazis, 148
and reproductive freedom, 29,
origin of sixties, 96-97
97, 112-13, 149
See also Feminism
See also Male dominance
Woodhull, Victoria, 56, 58-61, 66,
Violence
68
in Bryant’s life, 27
Woodhull and Clafin's Weekly
conforming and protection
(newspaper), 57
against, 14-17
Woolf, Virginia, 37, 39, 45-46, 49,
in counterculture, 92
67-68, 147
male sexual, and right-wing view
Worship of women, 205-7
of lesbians, 32
physical, as kind of force, 82 (see
also Force)
Zawadzki, Edward S., 72
