"An exhilarating book, truly young with the strength and daring of youth." -Chicago Tribune "One of the few men who seem really to understand what the feminist movement is.He points out that some women find their destiny in the bearing and rearing of children, that others demand independent work like men, and that still others make a career of charming, stimulating, and comforting men.Mr. Dell is a thoroughly moral man, but he is not conventional, and therefore he is not alarmed by any such word as courtezan, but thinks out everything for himself.Most books on the feminist movement are dull. Mr. Dell's is very readable.

The author finds in the woman's movement of today another example of the readiness of women to adapt themselves to a masculine demand. Men are tired of subservient women, or of the seemingly subservient women who effect their will by stealth, - pretty slaves with the slaves' subtlety and cleverness, - and Mr. Dell sums up the reasons why men are ready for a feminist movement by saying: 'In reality, they desired it because it promised to be more fun.' The lightness goes not only with candor but with simple profundity." -Harper's Weekly "Another view of the woman's movement." -The Delineator "From Chicago comes a more logical explanation of modern feminism by Floyd Dell, who has considered such individuals as Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Olive Schreiner, Ellen Key, and Emmeline Pankhurst in his book 'Women as World Builders.' The argument of the preface ventures the theory that the whole feminist movement has grown out of the readiness of women to adapt themselves to a new masculine demand that grows out of man's rebellion against the 'cow woman,' the subservient female who effects her will by stealth and indirection and makes a dupe in one way or another of every man with whom she comes in contact. Thus behind the revealed rebellion of women stands the obscure rebellion of men.

" -The Review of Reviews "Mr. Dell, in his study of the feminist movement, has attempted 'not so much to show what a few exceptional women have accomplished as to exhibit through a few prominent figures the social nature of women, and to show what may be expected from a future in which women will have a larger freedom and a larger influence.'" -The Chautauquan "Here is a man writing of the modern feminist movement, not scientifically, as one writes of a phase of evolution or an epoch in the life of the race, nor in any partisan spirit either for or against. He prefers to preserve the personal element which he asserts is the life of any movement. Therefore he selects certain representative women and allows them to interpret for him the secret of modern womanhood." -Housewives Magazine CONTENTS I The Feminist Movement II Charlotte Perkins Gilman III Emmeline Pankhurst and Jane Addams IV Olive Schreiner and Isadora Duncan V Beatrice Webb and Emma Goldman VI Margaret Dreier Robins VII Ellen Key VIII Freewomen and Dora Marsden.