Category: History - American
The woman's rights movement is more strongly organized and has penetrated society more thoroughly in all the Germanic countries than in the Romance countries. There are many causes for this: woman's greater freedom of activity in the Germanic countries; the predominance of the...
the feminine, _unless the contrary is expressly stated_, the friends of woman's suffrage believed they could interpret this expression in favor of women. The attempt to do this...
1. CHAPTER IThe woman's rights movement is more strongly organized and has penetrated society more thoroughly in all the Germanic countries than in the Romance countries. There are many cau...
6. CHAPTER IVIn the Orient and the Far East woman is almost without exception a plaything or a beast of burden; and to a degree that would incense us Europeans. In the uncivilized countries,...
4. CHAPTER IIIn the Romance countries the woman's rights movement is hampered by Romance customs and by the Catholic religion. The number of women in these countries is in many cases smaller...
5. CHAPTER IIIIn the Slavic countries there is a lack of an ancient, deeply rooted culture like that of western Europe. Everywhere the oriental viewpoint has had its effect on the status of w...
3. v. Veres with twenty-two other women founded the "Society for theAdvancement of Girls' Education." In 1869, the first class in a high school for girls was formed in Budapest. An esteemed scholar, P. Gyulai, undertook the superintendence of th...