, 1911, have had on the woman's
rights question. An index, also, has been added.

BOULDER, COLORADO,
November, 1911.

PREFACE

The first edition of this book appeared in 1905. That edition is
exhausted,--an evidence of the great present-day interest in the woman's
rights movement. This new edition takes into account the developments
since 1905, contains the recent statistical data, and gives an account of
the woman's suffrage movement which has been especially characteristic of
these later years. Wherever the statistical data have been left unchanged,
either there have been no new censuses or the new results were not
available.

The facts contained in this volume do not require of me any prefatory
observations on the theoretical justification of the woman's rights
movement.[1] From the remotest time man has tried to rule her who ought to
be comrade and colleague to him. By virtue of the law of might he
generally succeeded. Every protest against this law of might was a
"woman's rights movement."

History contains many such protests. The _modern_ woman's rights movement
is the first organized and international protest of this kind. Therefore
it is a movement full of success and promise. Leadership in this movement
has fallen to the women of the Caucasian race, among whom the women of the
United States have been foremost. At their instigation were formed the
World's Christian Temperance Union, the International Council of Women,
and the International Woman's Suffrage Alliance.

In many lands, even in those inhabited by the white race, there are,
however, only very feeble beginnings of the woman's rights movement. In
the Orient, the Far East, and in Africa, woman's condition of bondage is
still almost entirely unbroken. Nevertheless, in these regions of the
world, too, woman's day is dawning in such a way that we look for
developments more confidently than ever before.

In all countries the woman's rights movement originated with the middle
classes. This is a purely historical fact which in itself in no way
implies any antagonism between the woman's rights movement and the
workingwomen's movement. There is no such antagonism either in Australia,
or in England, or in the United States. On the contrary, the middle class
and non-middle class movements are sharply separated in those countries
whose social democracy uses class-hatred as propaganda. Whether the
woman's rights movement is also a workingwomen