page_title: Elizabeth Gould Davis
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Gould Davis / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Recto
context_page_description: Elizabeth Gould Davis was an American librarian who wrote a feminist book called The First Sex.
context_section_description: 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." She worked as a librarian at Sarasota, Florida and while there wrote The First Sex.
  She argued in The First Sex that congenital killers and criminals have two Y chromosomes, that men say they don't mind women being successful but require femininity when feminine qualities work against success, and that a matriarchy should replace the existing patriarchy. Prof. Ginette Castro criticized Davis' position as grounded "in the purest female chauvinism."
caption: Program card for January 14, 1931 speech at Chicago's unique Dil-Pickle Club.
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