Women as world builders : studies in modern feminism / by Floyd Dell.

  • Floyd Dell
Date:
1913
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Credit: Women as world builders : studies in modern feminism / by Floyd Dell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    over the cowardly, hysterical fear of the neighbors which prevails in the middle class. But, if I sympathize with the “hell rais- ing” tendency — no other phrase describes it — of the young woman of the leisure class, I have more pity than sympathy for the one who is trying to realize the ideal of the “salon.” For she must, after sad expe- rience and bitter disillusionment, be content with the tawdry activities which, relieved by the orgiastic outbreaks alluded to above, constitute social life in America. The establishment of a salon is, in itself, a healthful ideal. If civilization were de- stroyed, and rebuilt on any plan, the tradi- tion of the salon would be a good starting point for the creation of a medium of satisfy- ing social intercourse. Social intercourse we must have, or the best of us lapse into boorishness. The ego only properly func- tions in contact with other and various egos. So that, in any case, we should have to have
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