Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies
In any inquiry of a practical nature, intended to lead to some definite course of action, it is obviously necessary to start with a tolerably clear idea of the end in view--the object for which it is proposed to provide. In the case of education, definitions more or less satis...
In any inquiry of a practical nature, intended to lead to some definite course of action, it is obviously necessary to start with a tolerably clear idea of the end in view--the...
2. CHAPTER II.There is a theory afloat, extensively prevalent, and probably influencing many persons who have never stated it definitely to themselves, that the human ideal is composed of two...
3. CHAPTER III.Whether it is owing to the prevailing confusion of ideas as to the objects of female education, or to whatever cause it may be attributed, there can be little doubt that the thi...
4. CHAPTER IV.Supposing so much to be granted, it will be asked, What can be done? Clearly, girls cannot be kept at school indefinitely till they marry. When they leave school, say at eightee...
5. CHAPTER V.An obvious rejoinder to the foregoing suggestions will at once present itself. It will be said that professions and business may be all very well--may indeed be best--for single...
6. CHAPTER VI.If it be admitted that the law of human duty is the same for both sexes, and if the specific functions belonging to each demand substantially the same qualities for their perfor...
7. CHAPTER VII.To guard against misconception on so obscure and so complex a subject as that of the present inquiry is a somewhat hopeless endeavour. But it may, perhaps, be worth while to say...