HYPATIA TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW SERIES _DÆDALUS, or Science and the Future_ By J. B. S. Haldane _ICARUS, or The Future of Science_ By the Hon. Bertrand Russell, F.R.S. _THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST_ By F. G. Crookshank, M.D. _Fully Illustrated_ _WIRELESS POSSIBILITIES_ By Prof. A. M. Low. _With four Diagrams._ _NARCISSUS, or An Anatomy of Clothes_ By Gerald Heard. _Illustrated_ _TANTALUS, or The Future of Man_ By Dr. F. C. S. Schiller _THE PASSING OF THE PHANTOMS_ By Prof. C. J. Patten, M.A., M.D., Sc.D., F.R.A.I. _CALLINICUS, A Defence of Chemical Warfare_ By J. B. S. Haldane _QUO VADIMUS? Some Glimpses of the Future_ By E. E. Fournier d’Albe, D.Sc., F.Inst.P. _THE CONQUEST OF CANCER_ By H. W. S. Wright, M.S., F.R.C.S. _HYPATIA, or Woman and Knowledge_ By Dora Russell (Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell) _LYSISTRATA, or Woman’s Future and Future Woman_ By A. M. Ludovici _WHAT I BELIEVE_ By the Hon. Bertrand Russell, F.R.S. _In Preparation_ _PERSEUS, of Dragons_ By H. F. Scott Stokes, M.A. _THE FUTURE OF SEX_ By Rebecca West _THE EVOCATION OF GENIUS_ By Alan Porter _AESCULAPIUS, or Disease and The Man_ By F. G. Crookshank, M.D. _Other Volumes in Preparation_ E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY HYPATIA OR WOMAN AND KNOWLEDGE BY DORA RUSSELL (MRS. BERTRAND RUSSELL) [Illustration] NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY Copyright 1925 By E. P. Dutton & Company _All Rights Reserved_ First Printing July, 1925 Second Printing July, 1925 Third Printing February, 1926 _Printed in the United States of America_ To MY DAUGHTER KATE RUSSELL PREFACE Hypatia was a University lecturer denounced by Church dignitaries and torn to pieces by Christians. Such will probably be the fate of this book: therefore it bears her name. What I have written here I believe, and shall not retract or change for similar episcopal denunciations. DORA RUSSELL. _January, 1925._ TABLE OF CONTENTS I JASON AND MEDEA _Is there a Sex War?_ 1 II ARTEMIS _The Early Struggles of Feminism_ 13 III ASPASIA _The Younger Feminists_ 26 IV HECUBA _Feminist Mothers_ 40