ABSTRACT
The goals of feminism and pacifism may appear to some of the reader to be in excellent harmony, yet the women struggling for goals find themselves continually in conflict, not only with the declared enemies of both feminism and pacifism, but with our supposed friends and even with each other. One line of argument against linking feminism with pacifism comes from those who see feminism as primarily concerned with opening opportunities for women on an equal basis with men in all aspects of our present-day society, including those relating to war. But it is clear that the compelling logic linking feminism and pacifism escaped them at the time. Gearhart’s proposal, relying on a “masculine” style of logic distancing the speaker and reader from objects who are thus dehumanized, is unusual even among those apocalyptic writings of women portraying a future society entirely devoid of men.
