The Sex Revolution
| Title | The Sex Revolution |
| Year for Search | 1892 |
| Authors | Waisbrooker, Lois [Nichols](1826-1909) |
| Date Published | 1892 |
| Publisher | Purdy |
| Place Published | Chicago, IL |
| ISBN Number | 0-86571-050-3 |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Written in response to George Noyes Miller’s The Strike of a Sex (1890) in which women go on strike for “ownership over our person,” specifically control of maternity, with the action taking place after the successful revolution. Even though the strike was successful, men still make war, and the women say that if men go to war, the women will go with them. The ending suggests the possible that the better society brought about by the strike can be made even better, but it is all a dream. There is no mention of Miller’s After the Strike of a Sex (1891), which mostly describes the Oneida Community as eutopian. Her Nothing Like It: Or, Steps to the Kingdom. Boston, MA: Rich & Colby, 1875; rpt. New York: Murray Hill Publishing, 1875. 336 pp. has a dream sequence (234-37) that depicts the situation of women as chained by the state unless chosen by a man and chained to him plus some free women who are despised by all but desired by the men. And her The Wherefore Investigating Company. Topeka, KS: Independent Pub. Co., 1894. 313 pp. is an economic novel on the problems of the time that presents the control of land as the central economic problem. |
| Additional Publishers | 2nd ed. Topeka, KS: Independent Publishing, Co., 1894. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1985, with an “Introduction: Women in the Lead: Waisbrooker’s Way to Peace” (1-52) by Pam McAllister. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 178-91 with an editor’s note on 176-77. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The female author (1826-1909) was born Adeline Eliza Nichols |
| Full Text | 1892 Waisbrooker, Lois [Nichols] (1826-1909). A Sex Revolution. Chicago, IL: Purdy. 2nd ed. Topeka, KS: Independent Publishing, Co., 1894. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1985, with an “Introduction: Women in the Lead: Waisbrooker’s Way to Peace” (1-52) by Pam McAllister. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 178-91 with an editor’s note on 176-77. PSt Written in response to George Noyes Miller’s The Strike of a Sex (1890) in which women go on strike for “ownership over our person,” specifically control of maternity, with the action taking place after the successful revolution. Even though the strike was successful, men still make war, and the women say that if men go to war, the women will go with them. The ending suggests the possible that the better society brought about by the strike can be made even better, but it is all a dream. There is no mention of Miller’s After the Strike of a Sex (1891), which mostly describes the Oneida Community as eutopian. Her Nothing Like It: Or, Steps to the Kingdom. Boston, MA: Rich & Colby, 1875; rpt. New York: Murray Hill Publishing, 1875. 336 pp. has a dream sequence (234-37) that depicts the situation of women as chained by the state unless chosen by a man and chained to him plus some free women who are despised by all but desired by the men. And her The Wherefore Investigating Company. Topeka, KS: Independent Pub. Co., 1894. 313 pp. is an economic novel on the problems of the time that presents the control of land as the central economic problem. The female author was born Adeline Eliza Nichols. |
