women’s rights

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Votes for Women

100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment

On June 4th, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress and ratified on August 18th, granting women the right to vote after a 73 year struggle. Women’s suffrage began before the Civil War and included civil disobedience, vandalism and even arson, resulting in women protesters being beaten, jailed and starved into submission. After having their cause “shelved” during the War Between the States, women activists were not relinquishing it for the distractions of World War I, and mounted signs outside the White House criticizing the President for visiting dignitaries to read. It seems absurd to those […]

A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960 — Suffragette, Egoist, Philosopher.

A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960 — Suffragette, Egoist, Philosopher.

The Union of Egoists is quite proud to announce a newly revised, expanded and corrected edition of Dr. Les Garner’s biography: A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960 SA1127, 6×9, 486 pages, ISBN: 978-1944651145 Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon.com | Amazon UK | Amazon IT | Amazon DE | Amazon JP Suffragette. Egoist. Philosopher. Dora Marsden (1882–1960) burst the chains keeping women from education; burst the chains keeping women from the vote; burst the chains of conservative feminism; burst the chains of philosophy, of time and of language. From her near-anonymous birth, to shouting down Winston Churchill, to pioneering publications, to condemnation to decades in a mental hospital, A Brave […]

Mask Slippage—Does Faith Entitle a Right to Discriminate?

The recent SCOTUS decision in support of the evangelical Christian owners of Hobby Lobby has prompted religious leaders to drop their pretense at being a force for general solace and succor, revealing their usually masked hostility towards any who do not agree with and practice their beliefs. On the surface, to some people the consequences seemed at first to be only a minor limiting factor, denying their female employees a few of what the business’s owners consider to be forms of “abortive contraception”—defined by their principles, not those of current law. Some argue that this corporation will support other forms […]