The Future of the Women's Movement: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Future of the Women's Movement, credited to Helena Swanwick, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Future of the Women's Movement by Helena Swanwick. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. "There may seem to be a disappointing lack of prophesy in a book avowedly dealing with the future; but since I believe the women’s movement to be a seeking for knowledge and good, to show what is reasonable and good in the movement is to show what will persist and triumph. Through all our faults and mistakes, we women are aiming at better understanding and co-operation with men, and a better adaptation to one another of conditions and persons. We are having to hammer out for ourselves the right principles of government. We can take them ready-made from no man. Doubtless we shall flounder considerably, as men have done—and do. But there is little fear that in the long-run the best minds of men and women will not have a common principle." (From the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Future of the Women's Movement
• Author credits: Helena Swanwick
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 5:40:16

Catalogue topics

• women
• feminism
• women's rights
• suffragette
• women's movement

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface and Introduction — 9:38
2. 01 - Causes of the Women's Movement — 20:07
3. 02 - What is the Women's Movement? — 9:29
4. 03 - The Subjection of Women — 16:32
5. 04 - Physical Force — 18:11
6. 05 - Democracy and Representative Government — 27:51
7. 06 - Votes — 13:42
8. 07 - The Economic Problem: (1) The Wage-Earner — 15:58
9. 08 - The Economic Problem: (2) The Mother — 15:29
10. 09 - The Economic Problem: (3) The Housewife — 15:28
11. 10 - The Economic Problem: (4) The Prostitute — 25:26
12. 11 - The Economic Problem: (5) Commercialized Vice — 18:46
13. 12 - The Man's Woman: Womanly — 21:55
14. 13 - The Woman's Woman: A Person — 26:22
15. 14 - Sex-Antagonism: (1) Man's Part — 26:58
16. 15 - Sex-Antagonism: (2) Woman's Part — 31:29
17. 16 - The Old Adam and the New — 26:55

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