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Title: The Modern Woman's Rights Movement
A Historical Survey

Author: Kaethe Schirmacher

Translator: Carl Conrad Eckhardt

Release Date: September 10, 2010 [EBook #33700]

Language: English

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THE MODERN WOMAN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO
SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

THE MODERN WOMAN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT

_A HISTORICAL SURVEY_

BY DR. KAETHE SCHIRMACHER

TRANSLATED FROM THE
SECOND GERMAN EDITION
BY CARL CONRAD ECKHARDT, PH.D.
INSTRUCTOR IN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1912
_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1912,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1912.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

"Unterdrueckung ist gegen die menschliche Natur"

"Oppression is opposed to human nature"

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

Hitherto there has been no English book giving a history of the woman's
rights movement in all countries of the world. English and American
readers will therefore welcome the appearance of an English edition of Dr.
Schirmacher's "Die moderne Frauenbewegung." Since Dr. Schirmacher is a
German woman's rights advocate, actively engaged in propaganda, her book
is not merely a history, but a political pamphlet as well. Although the
reader may at times disagree with the authoress, he will be interested in
her point of view.

In the chapter on the United States I have added, with Dr. Schirmacher's
consent, a number of translator's footnotes, showing what bearings the
elections of November, 1910, and October