Antifeminism
Antifeminism – an umbrella term for all theories, ideologies, and movements that are opposed to feminism.
One of the most prominent representatives of antifeminism was Edward H. Clarke, a professor at Harvard College and a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, who opposed women’s higher education. In his book Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for Girls, Clarke argued that education placed too great a physical burden on women.
In his view, if women entered college, their blood would begin to flow to the brain, the brain would begin to grow, and as a result the womb, or uterus, would atrophy. Clarke supported his theory with observations from life recorded in his book: for example, he argued that women with higher education had fewer children than women without higher education.
References:
Clarke, E. H. (1884). Sex in education; or, A fair chance for girls. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Retrieved from https://archive.org/details/sexineducationor00clariala
Shevchenko, Z. V. (Comp.). (2016). Antyfeminizm [Antifeminism]. In Slovnyk gendernykh terminiv [Dictionary of Gender Terms] (pp. 15–16). Cherkasy: Chabanenko Yu. [in Ukrainian].
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