Category: History - Other
THE distinct aim which emboldened the author to add one more essay to the large class of works that deal with woman's position throughout the ages was twofold. It seemed, in the first place, that there was a lack of connecting principle in the series of detached sketches that...
THE distinct aim which emboldened the author to add one more essay to the large class of works that deal with woman's position throughout the ages was twofold. It seemed, in the...
2. CHAPTER II.FEMINIST writers in the second half of the nineteenth century were often seduced by an interesting theory that all, or nearly all, nations in the simplest stage of political str...
3. CHAPTER III.IT may seem strange that, if this has been the general course of development, the first civilised nation to which we turn does not bear the features that it would lead us to exp...
4. CHAPTER IV.IT is not necessary, and it would be much more difficult, to make a minute inquiry into the other civilisations that sprang up, before the Christian era, in that remarkable trac...
5. CHAPTER V.THE history of woman's position in ancient Rome is one of the most interesting chapters in the entire story of her development. It affords the most conspicuous illustration of t...
6. CHAPTER VI.THE millennium that lies between the year 500 and the year 1500 of the Christian Era is known to all historians as the Middle Age, and to very many as the Dark Age. Into the gen...
7. CHAPTER VII.FROM the broad survey of the world during the Middle Age of the Christian era, which I have made in the last chapter, we pass to the modern phase of woman's evolution. The trite...
8. CHAPTER VIII.IN ancient Greece there was a certain symbolic ceremony of a very picturesque character in connection with one of the great festivals. A lighted torch was to be conveyed to a di...
9. CHAPTER IX.THE general sketch I have just completed, of the evolution of woman's political position from the earliest and dimmest human communities to the twentieth century, has vindicated...