Male Voices on Women's Rights An Anthology of Nineteenth-century British Texts

This publication is a complement to the studies undertaken in recent years on men's roles in the history of feminism. The collection of writings - drawn from diaries, essays, parliamentary speeches, pamphlets, newspaper articles and sermons - is spanning from 1809 to 1913, and includes a historical introduction and a short contextualising essay before each excerpt. Contents: Part I: Comrades in struggle; 1 'Arouse! Awake! Rescue your sex' (William Thompson, 1825); 2 'Throw off the degrading yoke' (R. J. Richardson, 1840); 3 The root causes of women's subjection (J. S. Mill, 1869); 4 Against the sexual double standard (W. T. Stead, 1885); 5 'A thousand-times-told tale' (Edward Aveling and Eleanor Marx Aveling, 1886); 6 The time is come to act (George Holyoake, 1892); 7 'Woman . cast aside the chains' (R. P. Downes, 1900); 8 Banding together in the fight for human liberty (Dr W. Moore Ede, 1912); 9 What is feminism? (W. L. George, 1913); Part II: Provisions to be made for the education of women; 1 The cultivation of a woman's understanding (The Rev. Sydney Smith, 1809); 2 What is learnt from teaching girls (The Rev. F. D. Maurice, 1865); 3 'The highest aim of any true system of education' (W. Cooke Taylor, 1868); 4 A system of public education for girls (Charles Kingsley, 1869); 5 'They will not be unsexed by education' (Alexander Grant, 1872); 6 Admission of women to University degrees (William Forsyth, 1875); 7 Progress in the cause of women's higher education (The Rev. J. L. Davies, 1879); 8 Are women's brains inferior to men's? (D. G. Ritchie, 1889); 9 'The moral benefits of co-education' (The Rev. Cecil Grant, 1908); Part III: The vindication of women's civil rights; 1 A proposal to make marriage a civil contract (W. B. Adams, 1833); 2 'Talents merely to fold in a napkin?' (W. J. Fox, 1833); 3 A law to protect married women's property (Lord Brougham, 1857); 4 'The remnant of an old barbarous law' (Arthur Hobhouse, 1870); 5 A question of justice (Henry Fawcett, 1873); 6 A eugenicist point of view on the marriage question (Karl Pearson, 1885); 7 'A sanatorium with female attendants' (Henry W. Nevinson, 1909); 8 'Why I went to prison' (Victor D. Duval, 1910); 9 Women's share in the Co-operative movement (Joseph Clayton, 1912); Part IV: Towards a new sexual culture; 1 'The most important discovery made upon mankind' (Richard Carlile, 1826); 2 A man's devotion to his children (William Cobbett, 1829); 3 United only by nature's laws (Robert Owen, 1844); 4 'The return of powerful sexual feelings' (G. R. Drysdale, 1855); 5 A father's role in the education of his children (J. R. Seeley, 1870); 6 A Malthusian view of married life (Montague Cookson, 1872); 7 'A new code of manners between the sexes' (Edward Carpenter, 1896); 8 A new age about to commence (The Rev. Frederick A. M. Spencer, 1912); 9 'A new avatar of love' (Havelock Ellis, 1912).