ABSTRACT
One of the most remarkable products of the modern spirit of revolt is the Woman’s Movement and the immensely extended area of female enterprise that has resulted from it. The forces of rebellious feminism had worked silently, waiting, no doubt, for some indication that the leaven had produced a sufficient ferment in the body politic to make open warfare against the reactionaries inevitable. The chief exponents of revolt flung themselves into the fray with a fury that seemed out of all proportion to the merits of the cause. The sense of grievance, carefully fostered by the pioneers of feminism, gave the impression of being more manufactured than real. At first the authorities were inclined to regard them with a tolerance born of contempt. But later it became evident that militant feminism was a force that had to be reckoned with. Concrete illustrations of the poet’s “furens quid femina possit” were of daily occurrence.
