Extraordinary as this post-Harvey Weinstein moment may seem, it's not the first time that American women have risen up to protest male misbehavior.
During the nineteenth century, women were in the vanguard of reform movements dedicated to fighting licentiousness, most of it male, and much of it sexual.
The reformers proselytized against a double standard of sexual morality-not, as modern feminists have, with the goal of liberating women from sexual constraints, but rather to insist on "Abstinence" for men as well as women.
Thirty percent of American women join civic organizations regularly; only 20 percent of men do.
Nineteenth-century women weren't just wagging their fingers and shouting prayers at wayward neighbors; they were speaking in a common dialect embedded in Protestant morality and an American vision of individual rights.
Deeply entrenched class differences in public behavior, especially men's behavior around women, have already shaken up American politics.
A record number of women are running for Senate, the House, and for governor, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.
https://www.city-journal.org/metoo-movement
During the nineteenth century, women were in the vanguard of reform movements dedicated to fighting licentiousness, most of it male, and much of it sexual.
The reformers proselytized against a double standard of sexual morality-not, as modern feminists have, with the goal of liberating women from sexual constraints, but rather to insist on "Abstinence" for men as well as women.
Thirty percent of American women join civic organizations regularly; only 20 percent of men do.
Nineteenth-century women weren't just wagging their fingers and shouting prayers at wayward neighbors; they were speaking in a common dialect embedded in Protestant morality and an American vision of individual rights.
Deeply entrenched class differences in public behavior, especially men's behavior around women, have already shaken up American politics.
A record number of women are running for Senate, the House, and for governor, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.
https://www.city-journal.org/metoo-movement
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