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2. Sigmund Freud, “Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes, ” Women and Analysis, ed. Jean Strouse (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974), pp. 20-21.

3. Erik Erikson, “Womanhood and Inner Space, ” Identity, Youth and

Crisis (New York: W. W. Norton, 1968), pp. 277-278.

4. Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.,

Inc., 1974), pp. 47-49.

5. Sigmund Freud, “Femininity, ” Women and Analysis, ed. Jean Strouse

(New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974), p. 91.

6. See Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist

Revolution (New York: Bantam Books, 1972), pp. 41-71.

7. See Dworkin, op. cit., pp. 95-116.

8. Evelyn Reed, Woman's Evolution (New York: Pathfinder Press, Inc.,

1975), p. 48.

9. Dworkin, op. cit., pp. 153-154, 174-193.

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1. George Eliot, Felix Holt (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972),

p. 84.

2. The Lawes Resolutions of Women's Rights: Or, the Lawes Provision

for Women (London, 1632), cited by Julia Cherry Spruill, Women's Life

and Work in the Southern Colonies (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.,

1972), p. 340.

3. Phyllis Chesler, conversation with the author.

4. Sarah Grimke, “Education of Women, ” essay, Box 21, Weld MSS,

cited by Gerda Lemer, The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers

for Woman's Rights and Abolition (New York: Schocken Books, 1974 ) t

p. 29.

5. Sarah Grimke, diary, 1827, Weld MSS, cited by Lemer, op. cit., p. 23.

6. Angelina Grimke, diary, 1829, cited by Betty L. Fladeland, “Grimk6,

Sarah Moore and Angelina Emily, ” Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Edward T. James (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974), II: 97.

7. Lemer, op. cit., pp. 123-124.

8. Angelina Grimke, “An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, ”

The Oven Birds: American Women on Womanhood 1820-1920, ed. Gail

Parker (Garden City, N. Y.: Anchor Books, 1972), p. 137.

9. Ibid., pp. 127-129.

10. Angelina Grimke, Letters to Catherine Beecher, in The Feminist Pa-

pers: From Adams to de Beauvoir, ed. Alice S. Rossi (New York: Bantam

Books, 1974), p. 322.

11. Ibid., p. 320.

12. A. E. Grimk6, “An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free

States: Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women & Held

by Adjournment from the 9th to the 12th of May, 1837, ” cited by Lemer,