The great scourge and how to end it / by Christabel Pankhurst.

  • Christabel Pankhurst
Date:
1913
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Credit: The great scourge and how to end it / by Christabel Pankhurst. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    doctrine is dressed up in the saying that women are mothers and beyond that nothing. What a man who says that really means is that women are created primarily for the sex gratification of men, and secondarily, for the bearing of children if he happens to want them, but of no more children than he wants. As the result of this belief the relation be- tween man and woman has centred in the physical. What is more, the relation between man and woman has been that of an owner and his property—of a master and his slave —not the relation of two equals. From that evil has sprung another. The man is not satisfied to be in relation vdth only one slave ; he must be in relation with many. That is to say, sex promiscuity has arisen, and from that has in its turn come disease. And so at the beginning of this twentieth century in civilised Britain we have the
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