Ecce Femina: An Attempt to Solve the Woman Question : Being an Examination of Arguments in Favor of Female Suffrage by John Stuart Mill and Others, and a Presentation of Arguments Against the Proposed Change in the Constitution of SocietyThe author, 1870 - 258 страници |
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... wives as often as their wives yield to them . When a wife scolds the patience out of her hus- band , or a husband abuses his wife , it attracts attention ; but people take no notice of the more numerous class that live in harmony . The ...
... wives as often as their wives yield to them . When a wife scolds the patience out of her hus- band , or a husband abuses his wife , it attracts attention ; but people take no notice of the more numerous class that live in harmony . The ...
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... married and unmarried , overstep the mark , and inculcate a servility beyond what is desired or relished by any man , except the vulgarest . But this is not so often the case as , even at a quite late date , it still was . Literary ...
... married and unmarried , overstep the mark , and inculcate a servility beyond what is desired or relished by any man , except the vulgarest . But this is not so often the case as , even at a quite late date , it still was . Literary ...
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... husband is the natural pro- tector of the wife , and performs the greater part of the duties which bring the family in contact with the rest of the world , there is a natural fitness in regarding him as the head , or repre- sentative ...
... husband is the natural pro- tector of the wife , and performs the greater part of the duties which bring the family in contact with the rest of the world , there is a natural fitness in regarding him as the head , or repre- sentative ...
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... wife to be merged in the husband , having lost her own identity , is a relic of bar- barism , and unjust to the wife . The truth is this : there is no method of regarding the hus- band and wife as one , without adopting this or some ...
... wife to be merged in the husband , having lost her own identity , is a relic of bar- barism , and unjust to the wife . The truth is this : there is no method of regarding the hus- band and wife as one , without adopting this or some ...
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... wife , should be granted the husband . In case of death , there should be a uniform law in regard to the property . But , in ordinary cases , the fact that the husband is regarded as the head of the family , and the wife is supposed to ...
... wife , should be granted the husband . In case of death , there should be a uniform law in regard to the property . But , in ordinary cases , the fact that the husband is regarded as the head of the family , and the wife is supposed to ...
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Страница 87 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Страница 191 - The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband : and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Страница 118 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Tet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Страница 81 - It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable.
Страница 115 - I believe that their disabilities elsewhere are only clung to in order to maintain their subordination in domestic life; because the generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal.
Страница 22 - The law of servitude in marriage is a monstrous contradiction to all the principles of the modern world, and to all the experience through which those principles have been slowly and painfully worked out. It is the sole case, now that negro slavery has been abolished, in which a human being in the plenitude of every faculty is delivered up to the tender mercies of another human being, in the hope forsooth that this other will use the power solely for the good of the person subjected to it. Marriage...
Страница 82 - It is not that all processes are supposed to be equally good, or all persons to be equally qualified for everything ; but that freedom of individual choice is now known to be the only thing which procures the adoption of the best processes, and throws each operation into the hands of those who are best qualified for it. Nobody thinks it necessary to make a law that only a strong-armed man shall be a blacksmith. Freedom and competition suffice to make blacksmiths strong-armed men, because the weak-armed...
Страница 39 - The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to men. In the case of unmarried women, much of it seems only intended to increase their chance of a husband. Many, both married and unmarried, overstep the mark, and inculcate a servility beyond what is desired or relished by any man, except the very vulgarest. But this is not so often the case as, even at a quite late period, it still was.
Страница 223 - And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Страница 48 - But further, even in any given combination of (present) circumstances, no assertion, which is both precise and universally true, can be made respecting the manner in which human beings will think, feel, or act. This is not, however, because every person's modes of thinking, feeling, and acting, do not depend...