Ernest Belfort Bax on feminism’s relation to chivalry
Over 100 years ago E.B. Bax talked of first-wave feminists soliciting, expecting and receiving male chivalry for the benefit of women. Has anything changed?
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Ernest Belfort Bax on Rights and Responsibilities (1887 – 1913)
Ernest Belfort Bax wrote that early feminists had little understanding of rights and responsibilities
Ernest Belfort Bax: Feminism And The Media in The Early 1900s
Documents show that feminists controlled the media a century ago
Ernest Belfort Bax on ‘Sentimental Feminism’ vs. ‘Political Feminism’
In the following quotes Bax describes ‘Sentimental Feminism’ and ‘Political Feminism’, a distinction having striking similarities to Naomi Wolf’s ‘Victim Feminism’ and ‘Power Feminism’ (coined 80 years after Bax). The main difference is that where Wolf sees Power Feminism as positive and Victim Feminism as negative, Bax described, convincingly, that both polarities of feminism acted corruptly. * * …
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Ernest Belfort Bax Describes “Aggressive Weakness” Of Feminists
Weakness forfeits its claim to chivalry when it presumes upon that claim and becomes aggressive. ~ E.B. Bax
Ernest Belfort Bax: Feminists Inconsistent On The Question Of Women Being Same Or Different To Men (1887 – 1913)
Bax describes the alternating feminist appeals to differences, and then sameness of the sexes.
Ernest B. Bax responds to Lester Ward’s ‘Gynocentric Theory’
The following article titled ‘A Different Interpretation‘ was penned by Ernest Belfort Bax and published in Justice, 18th September 1909, p.10. (letter) * * * DEAR COMRADE, – With reference to Professor Lester Ward’s book reviewed in last week’s “Justice,” and the statements made in it which are apparently regarded by the author as arguments in favour of the …
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