Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Woman: Man's Equal

Equally amenable to Laws, Human and Divine--To rear and govern a Family rightly, requires Sound Judgment--Relative Mental Capacity of the Sexes not yet fairly tested--Comparisons--Christianity has done much, yet much remains to be done--Right in Each Other's Property--Men just...

Chapters

18. Chapter 18

In the troublous times about the middle of the fourteenth century, when every petty prince in Europe was trying to overreach his immediate neighbor and grasp his lands, and when...

13. Chapter 13

From the arguments brought forward by the advocates of woman's inferiority, it might be inferred that she was designed, from the very dawn of creation, for man's servant, not fo...

15. Chapter 15

The fact that men and women are held amenable to the same Divine law, and held equally accountable for any infraction of it, and that human law, with regard to criminal actions,...

16. Chapter 16

What rights, it may be asked, ought women to have accorded to them which they do not now enjoy according to law? From what rights does custom debar them? We claim that women, be...

11. Chapter 11

In the preceding chapter it is mentioned that the intention is to present to the reader, in as condensed a form as possible, some of the indignities put upon women, both in the...

17. Chapter 17

It has been so often asserted that women are incompetent to form any thing like correct opinions on civil or political questions, or to govern with discretion, even when by chan...

14. Chapter 14

In this enlightened age, the sentiment of the Rabbi Eliezer, that the law should be burned rather than delivered to women, would be execrated by the right-minded of every Christ...

10. Chapter 10

In the discussion of the question of woman's equality with man, I purpose to prove from the Bible, as I believe I can, that at the creation there was neither superiority nor inf...

9. Chapter 9

Christianity is the special friend of woman. Christian civilization has exalted her almost infinitely above the position to which either paganism or Mohammedanism assigned her....

12. Chapter 12

In the discussion of the position occupied by women as wives, those only have been spoken of who were betrothed in infancy, or were captured, stolen, or bought. These latter wer...

6. Chapter 6

Equally amenable to Laws, Human and Divine--To rear and govern a Family rightly, requires Sound Judgment--Relative Mental Capacity of the Sexes not yet fairly tested--Comparison...

7. Chapter 7

Taxation without Representation--One-sided Legislation--Similar Objections urged against the Extensions of Franchise--Domestic Discord--Present Causes--Citizenship not Inconsist...

4. Chapter 4

3. Chapter 3

1. Chapter 1

2. Chapter 2

5. Chapter 5

8. Chapter 8