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Title: Women as World Builders
Studies in Modern Feminism

Author: Floyd Dell

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Language: English

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WOMEN AS WORLD BUILDERS

Women
as
World Builders

Studies in
Modern Feminism

BY
FLOYD DELL

[Illustration]

CHICAGO
FORBES AND COMPANY
1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY
FORBES AND COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I The Feminist Movement 7

II Charlotte Perkins Gilman 22

III Emmeline Pankhurst and Jane Addams 30

IV Olive Schreiner and Isadora Duncan 41

V Beatrice Webb and Emma Goldman 52

VI Margaret Dreier Robins 65

VII Ellen Key 76

VIII Freewomen and Dora Marsden 90

Women as World Builders

CHAPTER I

THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT

The feminist movement can be dealt with in two ways: it can be treated
as a sociological abstraction, and discussed at length in heavy
monographs; or it can be taken as the sum of the action of a lot of
women, and taken account of in the lives of individual women. The latter
way would be called "journalistic," had not the late William James used
it in his "Varieties of Religious Experience." It is a method which
preserves the individual flavor, the personal tone and color, which,
after all, are the life of any movement. It is, therefore, the method I
have chosen for this book.

The ten women whom I have chosen are representative: they give the
quality of the woman's movement of today. Charlotte Perkins Gilman--Jane
Addams--Emmeline Pankhurst--Olive Schreiner--Isadora Duncan--Beatrice