ABSTRACT

W HAT does feminism wish? What is feminism, that doctrine, that movement, which for nearly half a century has predominated as a subject of discussion in books and political reviews and outweighs all other factors in domestic and social organization? If one searches through the official literature of feminism, if one lurns to the women who have headed or who head this movement, one will receive the most conflicting and contradictory answers. I myself have ex­ perienced this; my book, The Soul of Wo­ man, has aroused the anger of the femi­ nists of all the nations of Europe and also of America. Some women wish to win for women the right to do all that men do; others wish women to develop more com­ pletely their femininity; some demand a more rigorous morality than that of men; others free access to all professional ca­ reers now monopolized by men; still others ask for legislation to protect the working woman.