Right-wing Women

nomic conservatism, religious conservatism, over to conforming to

the dictates of authority and power, over to sexual compliance,

over to obedience—because as long as the sex-class system is intact, huge numbers of women will believe that the Right offers them the best deal: the highest reproductive value; the best protection against sexual aggression; the best economic security as the economic dependents of men w ho must provide; the most reliable

protection against battery; the most respect. Left and centrist philosophies, programs, and parties tend to vicious condescension with respect to women’s rights; they lie, and right-wing women are

quite brilliant at discerning the hypocrisy of liberal support for

women’s rights. Right-wing women do not buy the partial truths

and cynical lies that constitute the positions of various liberal and

so-called radical groups on women’s rights. They see antifeminism,

though they call it simple hypocrisy. They are outraged by it.

What is it that right-wing women see, then, when they look at

feminists? The Right, Left, and center have firm bases of power in

that they all come out of and serve and are led by the top class in

the sex-class system: men. They are all profoundly opposed to the

destruction of the sex-ckss system. Feminists want to destroy the

sex-class system but feminists come out of and serve and are led by

the bottom class in the sex-class system: women. The feminism of

women cannot match the power, the resources, the potency of the

antifeminism of the whole male political spectrum. Looking for a

way out of the sex-class system, a way beyond the boundary of

prostitution, a way around the crimes of rape, battery, economic

exploitation, and reproductive exploitation, a way out of being pornography, right-wing women look at feminists and they see w om en: inside the same boundary, victims of the same crimes, women who

are pornography. Their response to what they see is not a sense of

sisterhood or solidarity— it is a self-protective sense of repulsion.

The powerless are not quick to put their faith in the powerless.

The powerless need the powerful, especially in sex oppression be­

cause it is inescapable, everywhere: there are no free zones, free

countries, underground railways away from it. Because feminism

is a movement for liberation of the powerless by the powerless in a

closed system based on their powerlessness, right-wing women

judge it a futile movement. Frequently they also judge it a malicious movement in that it jeopardizes the bargains with power that they can make; feminism calls into question for the men confronted

by it the sincerity of women who conform without political resistance. Since antifeminism is based in power (the sex-class power of men along the whole political spectrum) and feminism is based in

powerlessness, antifeminism effectively turns feminism into a political dead end. It is the antifeminism of Right, Left, center, and all variations thereof, that makes the situation of women hopeless:

there is no hope of escape, no hope of freedom, no hope for an end

to sex oppression, because all power-based political parties, programs, and philosophies abhor the liberation of women as a basis of action, as a real goal, even as an idea. Being doomed by a reactionary political stance to social subordination is not the same as being doomed by God or nature to metaphysical inferiority—a crucial

point—but it is still real rough. The defenses of sex exploitation

are simply too consistent, too strong, too intensely felt, all along

the political spectrum of power-based discourse and organizing to

be ignored by women who recognize that they are women, not

persons, as right-wing women do. Simply put, the Right will continue to have the allegiance of most women who see how real the sex-class system is, how intransigent it is, as long as antifeminism

is the heartfelt stance of those with other political views, whatever

the views. Those optimistic women who think the antifeminism of

the Left or center is somehow more humane than the antifeminism

of the Right will ally themselves as persons with whatever groups

or ideologies best reflect their own social or human ideals. They

will find without exception that the antifeminism they ignore is a

trenchant political defense of the woman hating they are victimized

by. Right-wing women, who are less queasy in facing the absolute

nature of male power over women, will not be swayed by the politics of women who practice selective blindness with regard to male power. Right-wing women are sure that the selective blindness of

liberals and leftists especially contributes to more violence, more

humiliation, more exploitation for women, often in the name of

humanism and freedom (which is why both words are dirty words

to them).

Facing the true nature of the sex-class system means ultimately

that one must destroy that system or accommodate to it. Facing the

true nature of male power over women also means that one must

destroy that power or accommodate to it. Feminists, from a base of

powerlessness, want to destroy that power; right-wing women,

from a base of powerlessness, the same base, accommodate to that

power because quite simply they see no way out from under.

Those with power will not help; those who are powerless like

themselves arguably cannot. Feminists, after the defeat of previous

movements throughout history and facing some kind of disintegration again (with the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States, the possible enactment of the Family Protection

Act, the Human Life Amendment or Statute, and other social,

political, and legal initiatives promoting female subordination*),

have to face the real questions. Can a political movement rooted in

a closed system of subordination—with no political support among

power-based political movements—break that closed system apart?

Or will the antifeminism of those whose politics are rooted in sex-

class power and privilege always destroy movements for the liberation of women? Is there a way to subvert the antifeminism of power-based political programs or parties—or is the pleasure and

profit in the subordination of women simply too overwhelming,

* Feminists all over the world report similar backlash.

too great, too marvelous, to allow for anything but the political

defense of that subordination (antifeminism)? Will it take a hundred fists, a thousand fists, a million fists, pushed through that circle of crime to destroy it, or are right-wing women essentially

right that it is indestructible? Can the wall of prostitution be

scaled? Can what is at the heart of sex oppression—the use of

women as pornography, pornography as what women are—be

stopped? If antifeminism triumphs over the liberation movement of

women—now, again, always—whoever has political power or represents social order or exercises authoritarian rule—whatever they are called, whatever they call their political line—has women for

good; the Right, broadly construed, has women for good. Stasis

and cruelty will have triumphed over freedom. The freedom of

women from sex oppression either matters or it does not; it is either essential or it is not. Decide one more time.

Notes

1. T h e P r o m is e o f t h e U l t r a -R ig h t

1. M arilyn Monroe, in a dressing-room notebook, cited by Norman M ailer, M arilyn: A B iography (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973), p. 17.

2. Terrence Des Pres, The S u rvivor: An A natomy o f Life in the

Death Camps (New York: Pocket Books, 1977), p. vi.

3. Leah Fritz, Thinking Like a Woman (Rifton, N . Y .: W in Books,

1975), p. 130.

4. Anita B ryant, Bless This House (New York: Bantam Books,

1976), p. 26.

5. Marabel Morgan, The Total Woman (New York: Pocket Books,

1975), p. 57.

6. Ruth Carter Stapleton, The Gift o f In ner H ealing (Waco, T ex.:

Word Books, Publisher, 1976), p. 32.

7. Ibid., p. 18.

8. Morgan, Total W oman, p. 8.

9. Ibid., p. 96.

10. Ibid., p. 60.

11. Ibid., p. 161.

12. Ibid., pp. 140-41.

13. Anita Bryant, M ine Eyes H ave Seen the Glory (Old Tappan,

N. J .: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1970), pp. 26-27.

14. Ibid., p. 84.

15. Bryant, Bless This H ouse, p. 42.

16. Bryant, M ine Eyesy p. 83.

17. Bryant, Bless This House, pp. 51-52.

18. “Battle Over Gay Rights, ” Newsweek, June 6, 1977, p. 20.

19. Phyllis Schlafly, The P ow er o f the P ositive Woman (New Rochelle, N . Y.: Arlington House Publishers, 1977), p. 89.

2. T he Po l it ic s o f In t e l l ig e n c e

1. Norman Mailer, Advertisements fo r M yself (New York: G. P.

Putnam’s Sons, Perigee Books, 1981), p. 433.

2. Edith Wharton, “The Touchstone, ” in Madame de Treymes and

Others (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970), p. 12.

3. Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child o f the Dark: The Diary o f Carolina

M aria de Jesu s, trans. David St. Clair (New York: New American Library, 1962), p. 47.

4. Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Feminism, Marxism, Method and

the State: An Agenda for Theory, ” Signs: A Jou rn a l o f Women in

Culture and Society, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring 1982.

5. De Jesus, Child o f the Dark, p. 29.

6. Florence Nightingale, Cassandra (Old Westbury, N . Y.: The

Feminist Press, 1979), p. 49.

7. Virginia Woolf, The Pargiters: The Novel-Essay Portion o f 'The

Y ears” ed. Mitchell A. Leaska (New York: The New York

Public Library & Readex Books, 1977), pp. 164-65.

8. Abby Kelley, in a speech, cited by Blanche Glassman Hersh

in The Slavery o f Sex (Urbana, 111.: University of Illinois Press,

1978), p. 33.

9. Alice James, The Diary o f Alice Jam es, ed. Leon Edel (New

York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964), p. 66.

10. Woolf, P argiters, pp. xxxix-xxxx [sic] (speech given January

21,

1931).

11. Olive Schreiner, The Story o f an African Farm (New York: Penguin Books, 1979), p. 148.

12. Nightingale, Cassandra, p. 25.

13. Victoria Woodhull, “Tried As By Fire; or, The True and The

False, Socially, ” 1874, The Victoria Woodhull Reader, ed. Madeleine B. Stern (Weston, Mass.: M&S Press, 1974), p. 19.

14. Ibid., p. 8.

15. Victoria Woodhull, cited by Johanna Johnston, Mrs. Satan

(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967), p. 205.

16. W oodhull, “T he Principles of Social Freedom, ” 1871, Victoria

W oodhull R eader, p. 36.

17. W oodhull, “Tried As By Fire. . . , ” Victoria W oodhull R eader,

p. 39.

18. Ibid.

19. Robin M organ, “Theory and Practice: Pornography and

R ape, ” 1974, pp. 163-69; Going Too F ar (New York: Random

House, 1977), p. 165.

20. W illiam Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity F air (New York: New

American L ibrary, 1962), p. 168.

21. De Jesus, Child o f the Dark, p. 50.

22. Kate M illett, The P rostitution Papers (New York: Avon, 1973),

pp. 78-79.

23. Linda Lovelace and Mike M cG rady, Ordeal (Secaucus, N . J .:

Citadel Press, 1980), p. 66.

24. M aryse Holder, G ive S orrow Words (New York: Avon, 1980),

p. 3.

25. M illett, P rostitution Papers, p. 95.

26. Jenn y P. D’H ericourt, A Woman's Philosophy o f W oman; or

Woman A ffranchised (New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1864),

p. 41.

27. Joseph Proudhon,

in D’Hericourt,

Woman's Philosophy,

p. 36.

28. Woolf, P a rgiters, p. 120.

29. Ellen Glasgow, The Woman Within (New York: H ill and W ang,

1980), p. 108.

3. A b o r t io n

1. Jerom e E. Bates and Edward S. Zawadzki, C rim inal A bortion

(Springfield, 111.: Charles C. Thomas, 1964), p. 4.

2. Jesse L. Jackson, “How We Respect Life Is Over-riding Moral

Issue, ” N ational R ight to Life N ews, January 1977. Reprint.

3. R. D. Laing, The F acts o f Life (New York: Pantheon Books,

1976), p. 27.

4. Colette, M y A pprenticeships, trans. Helen Beauclerk (New York:

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978), p. 23.

5. M arge Piercy, “The Grand Coolie Damn, ” pp. 421-38, Sis-

terbood Is P ow erful, ed. Robin Morgan (New York: Random

House, 1970), p. 430.

6. Robin Morgan, “Goodbye to All T hat, ” 1970, pp. 121-30,

Going Too Far (New York: Random House, 1977), p. 122.

7. Ibid., p. 128.

8. Robin Morgan, “Take a Memo, Mr. Sm ith, ” pp. 68-70, Going

Too F ar, p. 69.

9. Morgan, ed., Sisterhood Is P ow erful, p. 559.

10. Jim Douglass, “Patriarchy and the Pentagon Make Abortion

Inevitable, ” Sojourners, November 1980, p. 8.

4. J e w s a n d Ho m o s e x u a l s

1. Maimonides, “Book of Holiness, ” fifth book of the Code of

Law, in Sex Ethics of Maimonides, ed. Fred Rosner (New York:

Bloch Publishing Company, 1974), p. 101.

2. Utah Delegation, “Utah Delegation Challenges the IWY, Resents Smear Tactics, ” press release, no date (but issued at conference November 1 8 - 2 1 , 1977), mimeographed.

3. From the public law mandating the conference, cited by

National Commission on the Observance of International

Women’s Year, Press Release 103, September 1977, mimeographed, pp. 1-2.

4. IWY Press Release 103, p. 3.

5. Ibid., p. 2.

6. Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew , trans. George J. Becker.

(New York: Schocken Books, 1970), p. 10.

7. Ibid., p. 13.

8. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf‘ trans. Ralph Manheim (Boston:

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962), p. 325.

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

Babies, see Children

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 also Violence

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

also Forced sex; Intercourse;

Nazis and, 148, 149

Pregnancy)

principle of opposition to, 103

God and bearing, 144, 145

See also Abortion; 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, see Jesus 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 also God; 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 also Feminism; 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 also Prostitution

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 also Fetus

Abortion)

Elderly, the, see Old, 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 also Murder

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 also God; 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 also Mothers

cion), 5 7 -5 8 , 6 5 -6 7 , 82, 92,

Family Protection Act, 151, 236

16 2 -6 3 , 170, 2 2 3 -2 4

Farming model

Education

o f social control and sexual use,

denied, to keep women morally

17 4 -7 5 , 1 8 4 -8 6

good, 205

See also Mothers

leaving out inquiry or passion for

Fear

knowing, 4 3 -4 4

Right answer to, 2 1 - 2 3

Fear (cont. )

(see also Forced sex;

Right as built on ignorance and,

Intercourse)

34-35

submission and nature of, 101

See also Religion

See also Male dominance

Female Fix, ^ ( N e llis ) , 156

Forced sex

Femininity, 80-82

as central issue, 80-87

Feminism (and feminists), 195-237

in counterculture, 90, 9 2 -9 3 ,

basic claim o f radical, 59

9 5 -9 6

and breaking sex-class system,

destructiveness of, 105

227

male dominance producing lust

and circle o f crimes in sex-class

for, 129-30

system, 2 2 1-2 6

pornography and, 2 0 8 -9 (see also

end-of-sixties, 95

Pornography)

and Fourteenth Amendment, 98»

protecting men from, 131

hatred of, 195-202

right-wing women and, in mar­

Left and, 100 (see also Left, the)

riage, 103 (see also Marriage)

as liberation movement, 2 16 -2 0

See also Intercourse

(see also Women’s movement)

Form, 22, 31

Mormon women and, 118

Fourteenth Amendment, 98

and right-wing women, 103,

Freud, Sigmund, 136, 141, 142,

23 1-3 7

158

and sacrifice o f women, 230-31

Friedan, Betty, 95

solution of, to not wanting to

Fritz, Leah, 23

die, 190-91

Fuller, Ida M ., 152

theoretical integrity of, as essen­

Fundamentalism, 33, 14 1-4 3

tial to practice, 220-21

See also Religion

two elements constituting, 220

as unnecessary, 193

Gift of Inner Healing, The

and woman's will, 18

(Stapleton), 23

Fetus

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 14 3-44

submitting to, 78

Give Sorrow Words (Holder), 64

therapeutic Left and, 98

Glasgow, Ellen, 68

See also Egg

God

Force

Bryant and, 27

cultural, 82-83

and childbearing, 144, 145

differential in power as kind of,

and Communists, 111

82 (see also Power)

as god o f males, 84

economic, 5 7 -5 8 , 82, 92,

homosexual rights and, 119

1 6 2 - 6 3 , 170, 223 -2 4

illegal abortion and, 105

physical violence as kind of, 82

o f Jews, as practical, 134-35

(see also Violence)

Jews and Christian, 1 0 9 -10 ,

promiscuity as generalization of,

125-27, 136-38, 141

103

and Klan view o f homosexuality,

required for intercourse, 82-83

115

and lesbians, 107-9

worth of women in, 66, 67

man’s authority over woman’s

See also Family; Mothers

body willed by, 78

Homosexuality

men as, 192

Bryant and, 27, 28

minister’s view of will of, 112

Bryant and Mailer views of,

M. Morgan’s discovery of will of,

compared, 40-41

25

Christians and, 109-11

Paul, Jews and, 136-38

death for, 111, 119

and Right to Life women, 193

hatred and fear of, 121-22

right-wing woman’s view of men

hatred of, as sex hatred, 121

and women before, 117

among Hebrews, 109, 112,

and role of men, 212, 216

127-31, 134, 135

Sodom and Gomorrah and,

as “Jew sickness, ” 115

131-32

and Jews as part of Christian

and trying to please, 23

Right, 139-40

welfare and state as instrument

male (sixties), 90

of, 167

meaning extinction, 143

woman cursed by, 144

a minister’s view of, 107, 110,

See also Jesus Christ

111

Goodman, Emily Jane, 15

Paul’s view of, 125-27, 137, 138

“Goon Squads” (LaRouche), 142#

resolution supporting rights of,

Gordon, Linda, 168

118-19

Green, Bob, 26-28, 29 n

right-wing women’s view of, 117

Gynocide, see Population control;

and Sodom, 133

Reproduction

and terror of extinction, 143-46

See also Lesbianism

Hardy, Thomas, 205

Hospitals, 153

Hate, see Anti-Semitism, Racism,

Human dignity, feminism and one

Sex hatred, and other specific

standard of, 219-20

entries

Human Life Amendment, 151,

Himmler, Heinrich, 148-49

171, 236

Hipponax of Ephesus, 194

Hyde, Henry, 88

Hispanics

Hyde Amendment (1976), 88, 99

control of population of, 148

Hysteria, 158

hurt by, and dying from illegal

abortions, 98-99

in nursing homes, 155

Ideals, 63

as test subject for drugs, 149

Ideas, 40-43, 48-49

and welfare, 170, 171

and right-wing Jews, 141-42

Hitler, Adolf, 122, 148

See also Education; Intelligence

Holder, Maryse, 64

Incest, 223

Holocaust, 122—23, 138

abortion and, 99 n

Home

and Hebrews, 128, 129, 132-34

suitable, 166-67

Incestuous rape, 86-88

Inferno and From an Occult Diary

Jews, 34, 35, 148

(Strindberg), 125»

charges against, in Gospels,

Inquiry (Cranford), 142»

136-38

Inquisition, 138

alnd Christian God, 10 9 -10 ,

Insults, 199-202

125-27, 136-38, 141

Intellect, 50

Christian view of, 109-12

Intelligence, 38-69

Christian women and, 1 19 -2 0

creative, 50-52

expression of hatred of, 33

as energy, 37-38

God of, as practical, 134-35

literacy and, 46—49

hatred of, as passion, 121

moral, 52-55

homosexuality and ancient, 109,

sexual, 5 3-56, 58-61

112, 12 7 -3 1, 134, 135

used to survive men, 39

male dominance among ancient,

See also Education; Ideas

12 8 -3 1, 133-35

Intercourse

right-wing, 139-42

to maintain power and domi­

Jonathan, 134

nance, 83-85

Jose Carlos, 38

as measure o f women, 80-82

Judaism, 136, 140, 142, 143

in Old Testament, 128

pregnancy as reason not to have,

Kelley, Abby, 49

103, 104

Kemble, Fanny, 121 n

rape as, not willed and initiated

Ku Klux Klan, 1 1 2 -18 , 142

by women, 60

in sixties, 92

Labor

See also Forced sex

sex, 6 2 -6 9

Israel, 139-41

suitable, 167

welfare and cheap pool of,

Jackson, Jesse, 74, 99

162-63, 168

James, Alice, 49

Labor Statistics, Bureau of, 170

Jesus, Carolina Maria de, 38, 44, 63

Laing, R. D., 75

Jesus Christ

LaRouche, Lyndon, 142»

anti-Semitism and, 33

Lawrence, D. H., 40, 4 2 -4 3

Bryant and, 27, 28

Left, the, 68, 69, 103, 104, 190

and control over women, 192

and abortion rights, 95, 9 9 -1 0 0

Jews and, 10 9 -10 , 125-27,

antifeminism of, 195, 198, 227,

136-38, 141

233-35

and a minister, 107

and counterculture, 9 1 - 9 7

and M. Morgan’s definition of

girls of, wrong about sex and

love, 25

men, 102

Paul and, 126-27, 136-38

and sexual revolution, 8 8 -8 9 ,

as perfect son, 23

209

and Schlafly, 29

Lesbianism

Stapleton surrender to, 2 3 -2 4

antifeminism and, 198, 201

See also God

and Christians, 109, 110, 1 1 9 -2 0

Klan man on, 115

Male-dominant model for social

a minister’s view of, 107-9,

control and sexual use, 202,

1 1 1 - 1 2

210-15

negating reproductive value of

Marcuse, Herbert, 175

women to men, 144

Marital law, 77-80

in Old Testament, 127-28

Marketplace, freedom from sexual

Paul’s view of, 125-27

coercion in, 68

right-wing fear of, 31-32

Marriage, 40

and sex oppression, 224, 226

and abortions, see Abortions

sixties, 90

Bryant, 26-29

See also Homosexuality

as delivery of body to another,

Let's Make Love (film), 17

61

Leviticus, 128-30, 192

economic exploitation through,

Liberation movement, see

224

Feminism; Women’s

economic and sexual profit from,

movement

57-58

Literacy, 46-49

force in, as containable, 103

Lot, 131-32, 134

forced sex in, 85 (see also Forced

Love

sex; Intercourse)

in male-dominant model, 210-12

M. Morgan, 25-26

M. Morgan’s definition of, 25

and mothers of girls of the sixand Right’s promise, 22-23

ties, 100-2

Lovelace, Linda, 63

rape in, 57-60, 77-78, 79»,

Lubitsch, Ernst, 188

85-86, 231-32

Lynching, 124

right-wing women view of, 68,

69, 105

McGovern, George, 99

Stapleton, 23-25

Machiavelli, Nicolo, 29

and women on welfare, 167

MacKinnon, Catharine A., 30», 39

as women’s work, 63-65, 67-69

Mailer, Norman, 18, 37, 41-43,

Marx, Karl, 111, 136, 141, 142,

88, 189

190

Maimonides, 109, 130

Masturbation, 41

Male dominance

Medicaid, 88, 99

“biological origins” of, 46

Mein Kampf (Hitler), 122

among Hebrews, 128-31,

Millett, Kate, 63, 65, 183»

133-35

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

intercourse to maintain, 83-85

(Bryant), 26, 27

(see also Intercourse)

Money

Jews, Christian Right and, 139,

sex and, 176

142

See also Economic exploitation;

as leading to death, 144

Prostitution

producing lust for forced sex,

Monroe, Marilyn, 17-18

129-30 (see also Forced sex)

Moral intelligence, 52-55

and welfare system, 163-73

Moral sensibility, 206-8

Moralism, 52 -5 4

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 43, 142

Morgan, Marabel, 23, 25 -2 6 , 28,

Nightingale, Florence, 38, 45, 52

40, 43, 56, 233

Nixon, Richard M ., 99

Morgan, Robin, 60, 9 5 -9 6

Nursing homes, 153-56, 172

Moses, 137

Mother Machine, The (Corea), 187#

O ’Brien, Tim, 174

Mothers

Old, the, 172

employable, 163

in nursing homes, 153-56

in farming model, 174-75,

as primarily female, 15 1 -5 4

184-86

Old Testament, see God; Jesus

life, motherhood and, 206

Christ

motherhood, respect and, 143

Ordeal (Lovelace), 63

motherhood as new branch of

Ozick, Cynthia, 41

female prostitution, 18 1-8 8 ,

19 1-92

sexual liberation of, 100-2

Panama Canal Treaty, 2 9 -3 0

surrogate, 181

Paul, 110, 125-27, 135-38

value of women as, 143

Phallus, marriage and, 40

See also Pregnancy; Reproduction

Piercy, Marge, 95

Ms. (magazine), 113, 114

Piven, Frances Fox, 162, 167

Murder

Planned parenthood, 41 #-42#

abortion as, 99

Poe, Edgar Allan, 14

abortion and fear of, 74-75

Population control, 148-51

of sexual intelligence, 55

Pornography, 103, 197, 223

liberation movement and apologists for, 2 19 -2 0

National Commission on the Obin sex-class system, 226-27

servance o f International

of woman-superior model o f anti­

Women’s Year, 113

feminism, 20 8 -12

National Enquirer (newspaper), 29#

Pornography: Men Possessing Women

National Organization for Women,

(Dworkin), 122#—23#

29#

Pound, Ezra, 136

National Women’s Conference

Poverty, 163-73

(1977), 31, 1 1 2 -1 9

Power

Nationalist hatreds, 121

differential in, as kind of force,

Native Americans, 155

82 {see also Force)

Nazism, 114#, 122, 142#, 148-49,

intercourse to maintain male,

188

83-85 (see also Intercourse;

Nellis, Muriel, 156, 157

Male dominance)

New Testament, see God; Jesus

Power o f the Positive Woman, The

Christ

(Schlafly), 33

New York Times, The (newspaper),

Pregnancy

29#, 154, 155

as cause o f battery, 143

Newsweek (magazine), 28

as consequence o f submission, 79

in counterculture, 93-94

antifeminist view of, 217-18

drugs and, 157

as better than masturbation, 42 n

forced, 59, 87, 223

comfort in normalcy of hetero­

Nietzsche on, 142

sexual, 32

as reason to refuse intercourse,

in counterculture, 96

103, 104 (see also Intercourse)

as expression of accepted sexual

right to terminate, 97 (see also

relation, 87-88

Abortion)

fake opposition to, 85-86

See also Reproduction

feminist view of, 217

Promiscuity

incestuous, 86-88

abortion equated with, 72

incidence of, 196

Left and logic of, 101-2

marital, 57-60, 77-78, 79»,

and right-wing women, 103

85-86, 231-32

Prostitution, 60-61, 223

pornography and, 208-10 (see also

antifeminism and, 197

Pornography)

and brothel model, 174-85

as putting all women in

economic exploitation and, 224

jeopardy, 221

encouraged for women on welsexual freedom and, 60-61

fare, 163-65

as sexual intercourse not willed

literacy of Greek prostitutes, 48

and initiated by women, 60

motherhood as new branch of,

in sixties, 92

181-88, 191-92

in workplace, 67

in sex-class system, 226-27

Rapists

sexual intelligence and, 61

Jews as, 126

and wives, 56-62

racially despised males as,

as women’s work, 63-65, 67, 68

122-24

Prostitution Papers, The (Millett), 63,

Reagan, Ronald, 30a

183*f

Regulating the Poor: The Functions of

Proudhon, Joseph, 65, 66

Public Welfare (Piven and

Psychosurgery, 162

Cloward), 162

Punishment, illegal abortion as de­

Reich, Wilhelm, 89

served, 104

Religion

marital law and, 78

solution of, to not wanting to

Racism, 34, 35, 48, 121, 122-24

die, 190-94

and different death rates, 155

See also God; Jesus Christ

economic value of, 162-63

Reproduction

in population control, 149, 150

by men, 172-73

welfare and, 170

selling capacity for, 181-82

See also Blacks; Hispanics

technology to control, 181-88,

Rage, displaced, 34

191-92

Rape, 223

See also Egg; Fetus; Pregnancy

abortion and, 73, 99 n

Reproductive freedom, 29, 97,

as another kind of love, 211

112-13, 149

Right, the

See also Women’s movement

as built on fear and ignorance of

Sexual Politics (Millett), 183#

women, 34-35

Sexual-preference resolution, 31

See also specific related entries

Sexual revolution, 8 8 -9 8 , 209

Right to Life groups, 33, 192-93

Sexual use

Rights c f Women (Ross), 79 n

brothel model of, 174-85 (see also

Rimbaud, Arthur, 43

Prostitution)

Romans (Paul), 10 7 -10 , 125, 126,

farming model of, 174-75,

135

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