Walter Heape

Sex Antagonism Walter Heape

Sex Antagonism, written in 1913, deals with male/female conflicts such as the women?s suffrage movement, which was of great concern to men raised in a Victorian society. Sex antagonism is a family war, and as family strife leads to the most bitter of all quarrels so this war threatens to lead to enmity which may last for many years and work untold evil on the nation. For that reason it is the most fateful of all the three forms of antagonism (Racial, Class and Sex), and the inherent differences which exist in the character, sympathies, aims, and methods of the combatants cannot fail to lead to cruel misunderstandings and virulent recriminations which the moderate party on either side will find impossible to explain or restrain.