The Truth about WomanDodd, Mead & Company, 1913 - 404 pages |
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Page 11
... dependence on the individual man which has been her fate in the past ; or , on the other hand , can she take up her economic and social position in society and work therein for her own maintenance as free from considerations of her sex ...
... dependence on the individual man which has been her fate in the past ; or , on the other hand , can she take up her economic and social position in society and work therein for her own maintenance as free from considerations of her sex ...
Page 16
... dependence in the sex relation , sex distinction has become with her " not only a means of attracting a mate , as with all creatures , but a means of gaining her liveli- hood , as is the case with no other creature under heaven . " Can ...
... dependence in the sex relation , sex distinction has become with her " not only a means of attracting a mate , as with all creatures , but a means of gaining her liveli- hood , as is the case with no other creature under heaven . " Can ...
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... dependence upon man ? How far is her state of physical and mental inferiority the result of this position ? To what extent is she justified in her present revolt ? What result will her freedom have on the THE STARTING - POINT OF THE ...
... dependence upon man ? How far is her state of physical and mental inferiority the result of this position ? To what extent is she justified in her present revolt ? What result will her freedom have on the THE STARTING - POINT OF THE ...
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... dependence of the male - cell upon the female - cell - The well - nourished female- The hungry male - Relation between food supply and the sexes— Illustrations - Lessons to be learnt - All species are invented and tolerated by Nature ...
... dependence of the male - cell upon the female - cell - The well - nourished female- The hungry male - Relation between food supply and the sexes— Illustrations - Lessons to be learnt - All species are invented and tolerated by Nature ...
Page 123
... dependence on her care , made woman the centre of the family . The mother and her children , and her children's children , and so on indefinitely in the female line , constituted the group . Relationship was counted alone through them ...
... dependence on her care , made woman the centre of the family . The mother and her children , and her children's children , and so on indefinitely in the female line , constituted the group . Relationship was counted alone through them ...
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Page 130 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 181 - Amongst them the women attend markets and traffic, but the men stay at home and weave. Other nations, in weaving, throw the wool upwards ; the Egyptians, downwards. The men carry burdens on their heads ; the women, on their shoulders.
Page 154 - The women in jahiliya, or some of them, had the right to dismiss their husbands, and the form of dismissal was this: if they lived in a tent, they turned it...
Page 359 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified.
Page 222 - Of all. things upon earth that bleed and grow, • A herb most bruised is woman. We must pay Our store of gold, hoarded for that one day, To buy us some man's love ; and lo, they bring A master of our flesh ! There comes the sting Of the whole shame.
Page 129 - Let them marry to whom they think best : only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
Page 111 - Hewitt states that a wild duck, reared in captivity, "after breeding a couple of seasons with her own mallard, at once shook him off on my placing a male Pintail on the water. It was evidently a case of love at first sight, for she swam about the new-comer caressingly, though he appeared evidently alarmed and averse to her overtures of affection. From that hour she forgot her old partner. Winter passed by, and the next spring the pintail seemed to have become a convert to her blandishments, for they...
Page 211 - They take the mother's and not the father's name. Ask a Lycian who he is, and he answers by giving his own name, that of his mother, and so on in the female line. Moreover, if a free woman marry a man who is a slave, their children are full citizens; but if a free man marry a foreign woman, or live with a concubine, even though he be the first person in the State, the children forfeit all the rights of citizenship.
Page 227 - Man shall be the slave, the affrighted, the low-liver ! Man hath forgotten God. And woman, yea, woman, shall be terrible in story: The tales too, meseemeth, shall be other than of yore. For a fear there is that cometh out of Woman, and a glory, And the hard hating voices shall encompass her no more!
Page 133 - ... or as was often done, go and start a new matrimonial alliance in some other. The women were the great power among the clans, as everywhere else They did not hesitate, when occasion required, to 'knock off the horns...