Elizabeth Gould Davis (1910 – July 31, 1974) was an American librarian who wrote a feminist book called The First Sex.
Biography
thumb|upright=1.2|Program card for Davis' January 14, 1931 speech at Chicago's unique Dil-Pickle Club Davis was born in Kansas.
"Miss Davis received her A. B. degree from Randolph- Macon College and, after a brief marriage, went on to earned her master's degree in librarianship at the University of Kentucky in 1951."
She worked as a librarian at Sarasota, Florida, and while there, wrote The First Sex.
She argued in The First Sex that congenital killers and criminals have two Y chromosomes, that men say they don't mind women being successful but require femininity when feminine qualities work against success, and that a matriarchy should replace the existing patriarchy.Davis, Elizabeth Gould, The First Sex (N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971 (Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 79-150582)), p. 18 and see p. 339.
Prof. Ginette Castro criticized Davis' position as grounded "in the purest female chauvinism."
Castro, Ginette, trans.
Elizabeth Loverde-Bagwell, American Feminism: A Contemporary History (N.Y.: N.Y. Univ. Press, 1990 ()), p. 36 and see pp.
26, 27, 32–36, & 42 (trans. from Radioscopie du féminisme américain (Paris, France: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1984) (French)) (author prof. Eng. lang. & culture, Univ. of Bordeaux III, France).
Bibliography
1971: The First Sex, Penguin Books,
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