and protection o f men’s rights,
separate-but-equal model of,
88
2 0 2 -4 , 215
rape and, 73, 9 9n
right-wing women and, 2 3 1 -3 7
return to illegal, 99, 171, 172
woman-superior model of, 202,
as right, 97
2 0 4 -1 0 , 2 1 5 - 1 6
right-wing view of, 32 -3 3
Anti-Semitism
right-wing women risking illegal,
A d olf Hitler and, 122, 148
104
Christian Right and, 139, 142
right-wing women’s view of
fundamentalist expression of, 33
legal, 10 2 -3
Holocaust and, 12 2 -2 3 , 138
in sixties, 9 4 -9 5 , 9 9 - 1 0 0
Jesus Christ and, 33
social effects o f prohibiting, 192
and Jew s depicted as rapists, 126
as torture for sex, 74
Ku Klux Klan and, 1 1 2 - 1 8 , 142
use o f contraceptives, married
Nazism and, 142#, 1 4 8 -4 9
women and return to illegal,
as passion, 121
2 3 2 » -3 3 »
See also Jew s
at w ill, 149
Asians, 155
See also Birth control; Pregnancy
Assimilation o f Jew s, 14 0 -4 1
Abraham, 131, 137
Austen, Jane, 39
Acton, William, 180
Actress as woman empowered to
Babies, see Children
act, 1 7 - 1 8
Bates, Jerom e, 72
Battery
Califano, Joseph A ., J r., 99
cause of, 143
Carter, Jimmy, 99
incidence of, 223
Cassandra (Nightingale), 38, 45
See also Violence
Cesarean sections, 188
Beecher, Henry Ward, 57#
Charcot, Jean Martin, 152
Beauvoir, Simone de, 44
Chesler, Phyllis, 15
Birth control, 41, 93, 149-50*
Children, 38
232#-33#
and conservatism o f women,
criminal and illegal abortions
1 3 -14
among married women,
effects o f having, 143-48
232#-33#
forcing women to have, 33 (see
illegal abortions and illegal, 73
also Forced sex; Intercourse;
Nazis and, 148, 149
Pregnancy)
principle of opposition to, 103
God and bearing, 144, 145
See also Abortion; Pregnancy
of the sixties, 94
Blacks
welfare for women and their dewith dependent children, 165
pendents, 165-69, 173
Douglass on, finally accepted by
women refusing to bear, deservwhites, 123-24
ing to die, 105
hatred of, as passion, 121
Christ, see Jesus Christ
hurt by, and dying from illegal
Christianity
abortions, 9 8 -9 9
Paul and institutional, 110,
motherhood and respect for, 143
125-27, 135-38
percent o f old, as percent o f pop
See also God; Jesus Christ
ulation, 155
Circumcision, 126
and population control, 148, 149,
Civil rights, 86
151
marital law as violating, 7 8 -7 9
and sixties counterculture, 89, 92
Clafin, Tennessee, 57
and Southern welfare depart
Clitoridectomies, 162
ments, 162-63
Cloward, Richard A ., 162, 167
and welfare, 162-63, 168-72
Colette, 85
Bless This House (Bryant and Green),
Communist Manifesto (Marx and
23, 27
Engels), 56-57
Bodies
Communists, 111, 112
control over own, as premise of
Comstock Law (1872), 57
feminist movement, 97
Conservatism, 13 -17
See also Feminism; Women’s
See also specific related topics
movement
Contraception, 41, 93, 149-50,
Brothel model
232#-33#
of social control and sexual use,
Corea, Gena, 181#, 187#
174-85
Counterculture, 9 1 - 9 7
See also Prostitution
Crawford, Alan, 142#
Bryant, Anita, 23, 2 6 -2 9 , 40 -4 3
Creationism, 142#
Butler, Josephine, 182—83
Creative intelligence, 50-52
Crimes Against Women: Proceedings o f
as o ff limits, 4 8 - 4 9
the International Tribunal
and poverty, 170
(Russell and Van de Ven),
and right-wing Jew s, 140
l\n
Egg
Criminal Abortion (Bates and
contraception “killing, ” 233»
Zawadski), 72
effects o f bringing each to term,
1 7 1 -7 2
legal rights of, 151
Darwin, Charles, 142»
male and fertilized, 7 4 -7 5
David (Hebrew king), 134, 137
and Right to Life groups, 193
Death, 1 8 - 1 9
in vitro fertilization of, 192
abortion and, 104, 105 (see also
See also Fetus
Abortion)
Elderly, the, see Old, the