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...reason for the revision of the 1959 text is readily apparent. The bibliographical notes are filled with works written within the last fifteen years. And as Flexner herself says: "Nothing could be more dissimilar than the situation of women then and now." Yet the text shows few changes in ideology or essential research, in spite of the fact that the thinking of women and about women has undergone incredible changes in the last fifteen years. Suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are no longer names in a book of social history; they are heroines in a national...
...PREFACE to the original edition of Flexner's book ended on a rather curious note, not quite comprehensible in today's frame of reference and unwittingly prophetic...
Between 1920 and the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, there was a fairly dormant period in the woman's rights movement. The relative quiet of this period makes the publication of Flexner's book not only important for its topic, but also for its scholarly, balanced tone. Winning converts often requires propaganda; scholarly respect and general acceptance requires a thoughtful presentation of the facts...
...Equal Rights Amendment and politics. But the chapter is too sketchy to give any real feeling for the events between 1920 and 1975. Anyone reading the book is aware of these changes and for a modern audience the concluding chapter oversimplifies and repeats what is provided in the preface. Flexner's aim is to provide history rather than record modern developments. Nevertheless, it may be valuable to reread the concluding chapter fifteen years from now to see if our perspectives have changed...
...balanced tone of Flexner's book is evident in the last sentence of her 1975 preface, another seemingly prophetic statement...