Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies
The general interest evinced in the theories of Michelet and other philosophers concerning the functions and province of woman, and the lively opposition to these theories manifested in many quarters, have called forth an American translation of the present work. This remarkab...
Some, theosophists of the old school, claim that one half of humanity is condemned by God himself to submit to the other half, because, they say, the first woman sinned.
3. CHAPTER II.The tenth and eleventh studies of the last work of M. Proudhon, "Justice in the Revolution and in the Church," comprise the author's whole doctrine concerning Woman, Love, and M...
7. CHAPTER VI.The Communists hold as the principle of social organization, not _the agrarian law_, as has been charged on them through ignorance or bad faith, but the enjoyment _in common_ of...
5. CHAPTER IV.The inheritor of a name which commands respect, Ernest Legouvé, an elegant, eloquent, and impassioned author, has written a Moral History of Women, whence exhales a perfume of p...
2. CHAPTER I.Because to him woman is a perpetual invalid, who should be shut up in a gynæceum in company with a dairy maid, as fit company only for chickens and turkeys.
4. CHAPTER III.To solve this question, it is necessary first to divide the man into two parts; not as the wise king Solomon designed to divide the child disputed for by two mothers, but in tho...
6. CHAPTER V._Every child has for its father the husband of its mother_: this, according to M. de Girardin, is the principle of two great wrongs: the servitude of the married woman; the ineq...
1. PART II.The general interest evinced in the theories of Michelet and other philosophers concerning the functions and province of woman, and the lively opposition to these theories manif...
8. CHAPTER VII.ORTHODOX ST. SIMONIAN. If Christianity has despised and oppressed woman, it has been because, in its sight, she represented matter, the world, evil. We, who are come to give the...