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OWEN, Harold. Woman Adrift: the menace of Suffragism. 2nd edn. Stanley Paul & Co. [1912?]
Half title, 3pp ads, 48pp cata; name cut from upper margin of titlepage. Orig. maroon cloth, lettered in gilt; sl. dulled. v.g.

¶First published in 1912; this undated second edition not listed on Copac. Owen's pompous and long-winded treatise argues against female suffrage on a number of different grounds, citing fundamental differences of physiology and intellect as justification for reserving the vote for men alone. He contemptuously asks, 'What reason have we to suppose that woman, in entering politics, will do more than she has done in entering every other sphere - bring subordinate and second rate intellect and powers, even at their highest, and so merely increase the number of representative opinions without the stock of human wisdom?'.
Stock #46967
£40


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