The E. Belfort Bax Antifeminism Reader The E. Belfort Bax Antifeminism Reader 2 Introduction Contents Introduction........................................................................................................................................... 6 Who was Ernest Belfort Bax? ........................................................................................................... 7 Biography by Ted Crawford.............................................................................................................. 8 Ernest Belfort Bax, Thinker and Pioneer........................................................................................... 9 Some Bourgeois Idols; or Ideals, Reals, and Shams (1886)................................................................ 14 Some Heterodox Notes on the Women Question (1887) .................................................................... 21 No Misogyny But True Equality (1887).............................................................................................. 29 A Word for the Men (1890) ................................................................................................................ 36 Courage – The Logic, Phenomenology, and History of a Concept (1890).......................................... 37 Marriage (1891)................................................................................................................................... 47 Equality, Not Privilege (1893) ............................................................................................................ 53 The Woman Question (1895) .............................................................................................................. 54 Bebel’s Woman and Socialism (1895)................................................................................................ 57 “Free Love” and Socialism – A Criticism (1895) ............................................................................... 59 The Everlasting Female Again! (1895) ............................................................................................... 61 Some Current Fallacies on the Woman Question (1897) .................................................................... 66 Legal Encouragements to Blackmail (1897) ....................................................................................... 72 Sexual Ethical Twaddle (1899) ........................................................................................................... 78 A Bundle of Fallacies (1901) .............................................................................................................. 82 Blacks, Whites and “Fads” (1901) ...................................................................................................... 88 Outraged Feminism (1901) ................................................................................................................. 90 Ferri and the Woman Question (1902)................................................................................................ 95 Shaw and Fabianism (1902)................................................................................................................ 96 Feminism in extremis (1902) .............................................................................................................. 99 Female Suffrage and Its Implications – An Address to the Central Branch of the SDF (1904)........ 107 Socialism and the Family (1906)....................................................................................................... 116 The “Monstrous Regiment” of Womanhood (1907) ......................................................................... 119 Socialism and the Family (1907)....................................................................................................... 134 Anti-Feminism. (1908)...................................................................................................................... 136 Mr. Belfort Bax Replies to his Feminist Critics. (1908).................................................................... 138 The Legal Subjection of Men (1908) ................................................................................................ 142 Preface To New Edition. ............................................................................................................... 142 Preface........................................................................................................................................... 143 I The Legend. ................................................................................................................................ 144 II The Facts.................................................................................................................................... 145 3 Matrimonial Privileges of Women. ............................................................................................ 147 Non-matrimonial Privileges of Women ........................................................................................ 166 The Criminal Law. ........................................................................................................................ 166 The Civil Law................................................................................................................................ 179 The Actual Exercise Of Women's Sex Privileges. ........................................................................ 183 3 The E. Belfort Bax Antifeminism Reader Muscular Inferiority and Sex-privilege. ........................................................................................ 186 A Sex Noblesse. ............................................................................................................................ 187 Socialists And Feminists ............................................................................................................... 187 “The Oppressed Woman.”............................................................................................................. 188 A Study in Socialist Heresy-Hunting – Why I Am Opposed to Female Suffrage (1909) ................. 190 Why I Am an Anti-Suffragist (1909) ................................................................................................ 194 Burrows as Feminist (1909) .............................................................................................................. 198 Contemptible Methods (1909) .......................................................................................................... 199 Women’s Privileges and “Rights” (1909) ......................................................................................... 200 A Different Interpretation (1909)...................................................................................................... 204 The Legal Subjection of Men (1909) ................................................................................................ 206 Woods on Women (1910) ................................................................................................................. 207 Uni-Sexual Criminal Law. (1910)..................................................................................................... 209 Feminism and Female Suffrage (1910).............................................................................................211 Re Woods (1910) ............................................................................................................................. 215 A Symposium on Women’s Suffrage. (1911) ................................................................................... 216 A Creature of Privilege (1911).......................................................................................................... 219 The Problem of Modern Feminism (1912)........................................................................................ 232 The Problem of Sex and Sentiment (1912) ....................................................................................... 239 The Marriage Relation Under Socialism (1912) ............................................................................... 245 Marriage Under Socialism (1912)..................................................................................................... 247 The Suffrage Outrages (1912)........................................................................................................... 248 Cant, Cowardice and Cruelty. (1912)................................................................................................ 249 The Fraud of Feminism (1913) ......................................................................................................... 251 Note by Transcriber, Ted Crawford .............................................................................................. 251 Preface to the 1921 Reissue .......................................................................................................... 254 Preface........................................................................................................................................... 255 Introduction................................................................................................................................... 257 Chapter I – Historical.................................................................................................................... 258 Chapter II. The Main Dogma of Modern Feminism ....................................................................