Many feminists have believed that government is the natural ally of the women’s movement. However, this book demonstrates that the opposite is true: government has long been a major oppressor of women and their rights. Feminism is not a new political force; its origins can be traced back to the abolitionist movement before the Civil War. Fighting to end slavery, women became conscious of their own legal disabilities. From these anti-statist roots, the women's movement eventually divided over such issues as sex, the family, and war. McElroy's book traces individualist feminism from those early roots until the present day. Her research demonstrates that in vital issues from sex and birth control to business and science, government has been the real obstacle in preventing women from achieving personal freedom and equal rights. This book discusses such controversies as individualism and socialism in the feminist tradition, economic freedom and the role of women, and the contemporary differences between mainstream and individualist feminism. Through McElroy’s work and those of a distinguished group of contributors, this book issues a ringing call for women to recapture their individualist heritage.
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"Freedom, Feminism and the State is a provocative challenge to contemporary feminist orthodoxy." -- New Directions for Women
"A superb reader, a lone offset to the assumption in most feminist thinking that the Daddy State can save women." -- Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago
"An exciting collection of hitherto unknown feminist works . . . must reading for anyone concerned with the freedom of women." -- Jennifer Roback Morse, research fellow, Hoover Institution
"An important contribution to the often confused debate on the rights of women and the source of their oppression." -- Humane Studies Review
"Eloquent testimony to the equality of the sexes throughout our history in these intelligent essays by female philosophers, moralists, individualists." -- Anne B. Zill, director, Women’s Campaign Fund
FREEDOM, FEMINISM, AND THE STATE is based on the premise that we must think seriously about individualism and political power. For feminists, the disastrous strategies and floundering of political leadership ought to provoke a re-examination of goals and principles -- Lewis Perry, professor of history, Indiana University, and editor, Journal of American History
"A superb reader, a lone offset to the assumption in most feminist thinking that the Daddy State can save women." -- Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago
"An exciting collection of hitherto unknown feminist works . . . must reading for anyone concerned with the freedom of women." -- Jennifer Roback Morse, research fellow, Hoover Institution
"An important contribution to the often confused debate on the rights of women and the source of their oppression." -- Humane Studies Review
"Eloquent testimony to the equality of the sexes throughout our history in these intelligent essays by female philosophers, moralists, individualists." -- Anne B. Zill, director, Women’s Campaign Fund
FREEDOM, FEMINISM, AND THE STATE is based on the premise that we must think seriously about individualism and political power. For feminists, the disastrous strategies and floundering of political leadership ought to provoke a re-examination of goals and principles -- Lewis Perry, professor of history, Indiana University, and editor, Journal of American History
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Wendy McElroy is research fellow at The Independent Institute and a columnist for FOX News.com.
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Although Angelina Grimke (1805-1879) was the genteel daughter of a prominent plantation owner, she became one of the foremost crusaders against slavery and the first woman in America to lecture before mixed audiences-audiences composed of both men and women. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Women's Bureau, Moses Harman, Judge Foster, Great Britain, Polly Baker, Cardinal Gibbons, Rhoda Nunn, Johns Hopkins, Judge Phillips, Miss Barfoot, Judge Caldwell, San Francisco, George Gissing, Lucifer the Light Bearer, New England, New Woman, Valley Falls New!
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- Freedom, Feminism, and the State: An Overview of Individualist Feminism (Independent Studies in Political Economy) by Wendy McElroy in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Puritan Ethic and Woman Suffrage by Alan Pendleton Grimes in Front Matter, and page 228
- Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement, (Americana Library) by Carrie Catt in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Society in America (Social Science Classics Series) by Harriet Martineau in Front Matter, and page 112
- Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism (The Black heritage library collection) by Catharine Beecher in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind by Eugenia C. DeLamotte on 5 pages
- Women, Political Philosophy and Politics by Liz Sperling on 5 pages
- Problems of Market Liberalism: Volume 15, Social Philosophy and Policy, Part 2 by Ellen Frankel Paul on page 313, and page 333
- Political Economy: A Comparative Approach, Second Edition by Barry Clark on page 237, and Back Matter
- The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to Milton Friedman by David Boaz on page 427, and Back Matter
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