Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics

Index

Index Note: Victoria Woodhull’s name has been shortened to the initials vw. Abbott, Lyman, xxxii abolition, 210–11, 314ch20n2; rhetoric of, 100, 115, 129, 148, 153, 208, 217, 219–20, 256–57; and spiritualism, xxxi abortion, xxi–xxii, xxii, 316n24, 318n5; and fear of race extinction, 248–49; T. Claflin on, xxi–xxii Adam and Eve, 262, 266–69 adultery: Jesus on, 262. See also Beecher-Tilton scandal; extramarital affairs alcoholism: developed in utero, 245; of first husband, 242 Allen, George R., 79 American Association of Spiritualists, xxx–xxxi, xxxv, 104, 172 American Bastille, 125, 311n1 American Bible Society, 134 American Revolution: labor reform compared to, 94; social freedom compared to, 194; social revolution compared to, 151, 312n1; women’s suffrage compared to, 44, 308ch8n2 American Society of Spiritualists, disaffection with vw, 198 American Woman Suffrage Association , break with vw, 147 anarchy, xxxii, 306n10; and spiritualism , xxxi Andrews, Stephen Pearl, xxii, xxiv, xxv– xxvi, 135; and free love resolution, 29; religious research of, 142; and vw’s writings, xlii–xliii animal magnetism, 313n3; and sex, 175–76 antenatal murder. See abortion Anthony, Susan B., xi, xiii, xliii, 37, 147, 302, 305n4 anti–obscenity movement, xxvii–xxviii armed forces, universal, 13 “A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom” (Woodhull), xxvi Assyria, 268 Astor, John Jacob, 69, 72, 95, 309n1 Baines, Jervoise Athelstane, 289, 318ch24n4 Beecher, Henry Ward, xxvi–xxvii, 118–20, 120–24, 216–17, 243–44, 306n7, 308ch7n1, 309n4; and Beecher-Tilton scandal, 98, 101–2, 108–10, 135–36, 140; and evolutionary theory, xxxii; excused after scandal, 140–41; “Gospel of Love,” xxxviii Beecher-Tilton scandal, xxvi–xxvii, 98–124, 135, 243–44, 255, 306n7, 316n21; public exposure of, 105–6, 128–29, 216–17 Bennett, James Gordon, xviii, 131 Bible, obscene material in, 134, 143 biblical scripture, vw’s use of, xiii, 326 | index biblical scripture (cont.) xxxviii; example, 27, 53, 59, 63, 80, 82, 139, 140, 159, 161, 197, 233, 254–55, 261, 265, 266, 267, 268, 270, 272, 278, 307ch5n3, 309ch10n2, 309n11, 309nn7–8, 310ch12n1, 310ch12n3, 312n5, 312n19, 313ch17n6, 314n16, 315n8, 316nn1–9, 317n1, 317n12, 317nn17–25; paraphrase of, 264. See also Christian rhetoric Bingham v. Cabot (1798), 307ch5n5 birth control, 292 birth rates, 248; of negroes, 289; of the unfit, 290–91 Bismarck, Otto von, 100–101, 310ch14n2 Blackwell’s Island, 69, 309ch11n2 Bladen, Elizabeth, 37 Blatchford, Samuel, xxvii, 244 Blood, James Harvey (second husband ), xv, 129; arrested for obscenity , xxvii–xxviii; and vw’s writings, xlii–xliii Boadicea (early British heroine), 164, 313ch17n8 Bonaparte, Napoleon, spirit of, 169, 313ch18n1 bondholders, 95–96 Boston Herald, 103 Bowen, Henry C., 101, 126 Bowen, Mrs. M. B., 302 Braude, Ann, xxix–xxxi Briggs, Ruth W. S., 79 Bunyan, John, 314n13 Burton, Harriet, 79 Butler, Benjamin, xviii, 43, 302 Caligula (Roman emperor), 139 cannibalism, 292 Cape May, 39 capitalism, indictment of, 68–72, 91–93 Carlyle, Thomas, 295, 318ch25n2 Carpenter, Matthew, 102 Catholic Church, 229, 248, 315n4; and marriage, 253 “Caudle Lectures,” 234, 315n9 Cervantes, Miguel de, 116 Challis, Luther, xxviii, 126, 128, 129 children: breeding and raising of, 215–16, 223–24, 244–45, 248; crime and, 274; damaged by parents’ false sexual relations, 186, 226–27, 241– 42, 249; and dependency on fathers, 158; disease in, 285–86; education of, 206; fate of without marriage, 221–22, 314ch21n2; masturbation and, 180–81; as oppressed class, 156, 158; as products of true sexual relations, 248; raised by society, not parents, 205–6; sexual impulses in, 183; society’s neglect of, 203–5; unwanted, 179–80, 241, 248; and in utero development of character, 245–46, 249. See also stirpiculture child welfare, national system of, 10–11 China, population of, 289 Christ. See Jesus Christianity: conservatism of, 265; and free love, 172–73; hypocrisy of as practiced by society, 158–60 Christian rhetoric: example, 48, 58–59, 63, 68, 70, 73, 75, 308ch8n5; vw’s use of, xxxv–xxxvi, xxxvii–xxxviii, 123, 133–34, 165. See also biblical scripture Christian Scientists, xxxi Christian Union (magazine), 38, 308ch7n1 churches, hypocrisy of, 155 citizenship: qualifications for, 16; women’s, 30 Civil War, 153 Claflin, Buck (father), xv | 327 index Claflin, Rose (mother), xiv, xxx Claflin, Tennessee “Tennie” (sister), xiii, 131; on abortion, xxi–xxii; arrested for obscenity, xxvii–xxviii, 127; and attempt to vote, 303, 319n4; as lecturer, 306n6; sexualization of in press, xvi; as stockbroker, xv–xvii class system: and conditions of lower classes, 273...