Elizabeth Gould Davis
Elizabeth Gould Davis was an American librarian who wrote a feminist book called The First Sex.Biography
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."
