Right-wing Women

1. Phyllis Schlafly, The Power of the Positive Woman (New Rochelle, N . Y.: Arlington House Publishers, 1977), p. 166.

2. Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass’ Paper, October 30,

1851, Frederick Douglass on Women's Rights, ed. Philip S. Foner

(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976), p. 55.

Index

Abortion, 7 1 - 1 0 5

Adam, 144, 192

antifeminism and, 197

Adaptation to prevailing rule, 19

and Communists, 111

Aeschylus, 42

decriminalization of, 9 4 -9 5 , 97

Affirm ative action, 197

dissociation from other women

Aid to Families with Dependent

having had, 73

Children (AFDC), 16 5 -6 7

and hatred, 7 5 -7 7

American Civil Liberties Union,

and hysteria o f men, 74

79 n

illegal, 7 1 - 7 7 , 9 8 - 9 9

Amos, 110

legalized, 9 7 -9 8

Antifeminism, 195 -2 3 7

and Monroe, 18

male-dominant model of, 202,

and Mormon women, 118

2 1 0 - 1 5

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