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FEMINISM AND SEX-EXTINCTION
OLIVE SCHREINER'S GREAT BOOK
WOMAN & LABOUR
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"The feelings which are behind the various women's movements could notfind clearer or more eloquent expression than they do in this remarkablebook."
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"At last there has come the book which is destined to be the prophecyand the gospel of the whole awakening."
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1 ADELPHI TERRACE
First published in 1920
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Feminism, the extremist—and of late years the predominant cult of theWoman's Movement, is Masculinism.
It makes for such training and development in woman, of malecharacteristics, as shall equip her to compete with the male in everydepartment of life; academic, athletic, professional, political,industrial. And it neither recognises nor admits in her naturalaptitudes differing from those of men, and fitting her, accordingly, fordifferent functions in these. It rejects all concessions to herwomanhood; even to her mother-function. It repudiates all privileges forher. Boldly it demands a fair field only and no favour; equal rights,political and social, identical education and training, identicaleconomic opportunities and avocations, an identical morale, personal and public.
In Woman and Labour, Miss Olive Schreiner sums in a line the Feministobjective: "We take all labour for our province." And this is the textof the Feminist creed; the elimination of sex-differences and theabolition of sex-distinctions in every department of life and activity.
Feminists anticipate—the militant faction with zest—fierce economicencounters between the sexes now that, War ended, o