Elizabeth Gould Davis

Elizabeth Gould Davis (1910 – July 31, 1974) was an American librarian who wrote a feminist book called The First Sex.[1]

Elizabeth Gould Davis
Born1910
Kansas, United States
Died1974 (aged 63–64)
OccupationAuthor, librarian
NationalityAmerican
EducationMaster's degree in librarianship
Alma materUniversity of Kentucky
Period1971
Literary movementSecond-wave feminism
Notable worksThe First Sex

Biography
Program card for January 14, 1931 speech at Chicago's unique Dil-Pickle Club.

She was born in Kansas. "Miss Davis received her A. B. degree from Randolph- Macon College and, after a brief marriage, went on to earned her master's degree in librarianship at the University of Kentucky in 1951."[2] She worked as a librarian at Sarasota, Florida and while there wrote The First Sex.[2]

She argued in The First Sex that congenital killers and criminals have two Y chromosomes,[3] that men say they don't mind women being successful but require femininity when feminine qualities work against success,[3] and that a matriarchy should replace the existing patriarchy.[4] Prof. Ginette Castro criticized Davis' position as grounded "in the purest female chauvinism."[5]

Bibliography
  • 1971: The First Sex, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-003504-4

References
  1. Jones, Judith P. (2000). "DAVIS, Elizabeth Gould". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
  2. "The First Sex : Davis, Elisabeth Gould : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. p. Preface. Retrieved 2020-07-27. Miss Davis received her A. B. degree from Randolph- Macon College and, after a brief marriage, went on to earned her master's degree in librarianship at the University of Kentucky in 1951.
  3. "Elizabeth Gould Davis Quotes". Quoteland. Archived from the original on 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  4. Davis, Elizabeth Gould, The First Sex (N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971 (Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 79-150582)), p. 18 and see p. 339.
  5. Castro, Ginette, trans. Elizabeth Loverde-Bagwell, American Feminism: A Contemporary History (N.Y.: N.Y. Univ. Press, 1990 (ISBN 0-8147-1448-X)), p. 36 and see pp. 26, 27, 32–36, & 42 (trans. from Radioscopie du féminisme américain (Paris, France: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1984) (French)) (author prof. Eng. lang. & culture, Univ. of Bordeaux III, France).
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