Breaking Into the Human Race.
Dorr, Rheta Childe. Pamphlet: "Breaking Into the Human Race.” New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, [c. 1912].
Pamphlet: 6-3/4 x 10"; 15 pp.; printed self-wrappers; illustrated; ink stamp of the NAWSA at front cover: "New Address…"; tanning to covers; upper foretip lacking; about very good.
Reprinted from Hampton's Magazine. Rheta Child Dorr (1872-1948), feminist and muckraking journalist, published her What Eight Million Women Want in 1910. Dorr argues that men equate being human with being male; and, only males are allowed to exist in diversity. Women on the other hand, "possess only sex…a mere auxiliary to a world of men.” A woman is supposed to conform to whatever standard, male standard, is current for being ‘female’. Some years she must look like an hourglass; other years she must look like a stovepipe. The agitation for equal rights in the work place, for woman suffrage, for greater access to higher education, Dorr sees, as "[a]ll part and parcel of the mighty effort of women to break into the human race.” Franklin, p. 134 (four stars), Krichmar 316.
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