Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies

Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

Transcriber's Notes: Words in italics in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. A row of asterisks represents a thought break. A complete list of corrections as well as other notes follows the text. The following Table of Contents has been added for the convenience of t...

Chapters

9. Part 9

Suppose that Abraham Lincoln, after his body had lain in state for three days, had risen from his coffin and for thirty days had been surrounded by his family, his cabinet, his...

10. Part 10

In enumerating the evils that would result from introducing woman to the responsibilities and excitements of political life, the most prominent is her increased withdrawal from...

4. Part 4

The mental history of these family friends is an additional illustration of this principle. My father had a college education; my mother and an aunt, who was a member of our fam...

7. Part 7

Then Mrs. Judge Reeve, and my mother and aunts, would meet and read works of history, or travels, or some classic English literature. Miss Mary Pierce was an accomplished elocut...

8. Part 8

And yet our most learned physicians complain of the deficient education given to medical students, and their negligent practice in comparison with European methods. I have befor...

1. Part 1

Transcriber's Notes: Words in italics in the original are surrounded by _underscores_. A row of asterisks represents a thought break. A complete list of corrections as well as o...

2. Part 2

First, she has charge of the economies of the family state; for, as the general rule, men are to earn the support and women administer these earnings. In this must be included t...

3. Part 3

But the more our nation has advanced in wealth and civilization, the more have the labors and the duties of the family state been shunned. Many virtuous young men are withheld f...

5. Part 5

1. The first would be the _department of intellectual training_; committed to a woman of high culture in every branch taught in the collegiate school; possessing quick discernme...

6. Part 6

This has lately been proved, from the census, by a leading New York paper. In that it is shown that, in all our large cities, the male inhabitants, under fifteen and over the us...

11. Part 11

Every woman who has any kind of liability to be a mother, or a nurse of the sick, or to meet other exhausting emergencies of the family state needs a _reserved_ force of vital s...

12. Part 12

In traveling at the West the past winter, I repeatedly conversed with drivers and others among the laboring class on this subject, and always heard such remarks as these: "Well!...