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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E.B. Bax: Custody Of Children In The Year 1896
The following is an excerpt from Bax’s The Legal Subjection of Men (1896) CUSTODY OF CHILDREN It has always in England been laid down as a fundamental law based on public policy, that the custody of children and their education is a duty incumbent on the father. It is said to be so fundamental that he …
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?
False rape allegations—An old tradition
The following gives an account of false sexual assault and rape allegations, and the reasons women manufactured them, that were commonplace 120 years ago when the below article was written by E. Belfort Bax. Were the methods of evidence-gathering 120 years ago faulty? Definitely. Were some genuine victims of sexual assault disbelieved? Unfortunately, yes. Were …
Feminism’s “aggressive weakness”
19th Century socialist and social philosopher E. Balfort Bax was a maverick amongst this contemporaries, but his words often remain eerily relevant to today’s world.
