The Woman Way | |
Auhtor: Charles Garvice | |
Language: englishGenres:classicDownloads: 462 eBook size: 580Kb Review by A. Dent, January 2005 Rating: (***) Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S. Please check the copyright status in your country. | |
Summary of the Book 'The Woman Way':
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be companions to their husbands rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men. Wollstonecraft was prompted to write the Rights of Woman after reading Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigords 1791 report to the French National Assembly which stated that women should only receive a domestic education she used her commentary on this specific event to launch a broad attack against sexual double standards and to indict men for encouraging women to indulge in excessive emotion. Wollstonecraft wrote the Rights of Woman hurriedly in order to respond directly to ongoing events she intended to write a more thoughtful second volume but she died before completing it. While Wollstonecraft does call for equality between the sexes in particular areas of life such as morality she does not explicitly state that men and women are equal. Her ambiguous statements regarding the equality of the sexes have since made it difficult to classify Wollstonecraft as a modern feminist particularly since the word and the concept were unavailable to her. Although it is commonly assumed now that the Rights of Woman was unfavourably received this is a modern misconception based on the belief that Wollstonecraft was as reviled during her lifetime as she became after the publication of William Godwins Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798). The Rights of Woman was actually well-received when it was first published in 1792. One biographer has called it perhaps the most original book of Wollstonecrafts Wollstonecrafts century.
Excerpts from the Book 'The Woman Way':
... scent of the gorse with which it was perfumed. Celia could scarcely refrain from singing she walked quickly, and sometimes, to Roddy's delight, she ...
... a discharge. As Derrick hurried off to the manager's office he asked himself why he had been so merciful, for the man had deserved all with ...
... the first time I saw it, I thought that the face of the portrait was like that of someone I knew. She was startled by the sudden change in his ...
... Miriam, again looking up at Celia, curiously. She possessed intelligence enough to discern, at the first glance, that Celia was not the common, ordinary ...
... open his fur coat and sticking out his chest. Look here, if you're not satisfied- Derrick made haste to assert not only his entire satisfaction ...
... all the better for the fact. Oh, but you have helped me, more than you know, Celia said, quickly. You don't know what a delight it is to me ...
... a chair and set a cushion for her feet and he performed the little act with a courtesy which was as genuine as strange in Derrick, who, like most men ...
... mind, was struck by the nobility and dignity of the thin, wasted face and the dark, penetrating eyes. I beg your pardon, said Derrick. Can ...
... to buy any. I'm thinking of the family diamonds there's any amount of them already a tiara, necklaces, bracelets-and, I remember, a string of pearls ...
... at any rate. Now, let's talk about our-wedding. I'll get Reggie Rex to help us, and we'll be married as soon as we can. I shall have done my business ...
... By the way, do you know my friend, Lady Gridborough? I did, but I don't, said Derrick, shortly. At least, she doesn't know me now-as you ...
... his lordship lying on the ground-there was blood- The man's voice had risen by this time and it brought Miriam to the door. She looked from ...
... suspicions of them indeed, he hit upon no clue whatever but he still kept up a kind of patrol and scrutinised every person who approached the Hall. ...
... Have I not? he broke in, grimly, and with a significant glance at the revolver. Oh, yes I realize it clearly enough it was because I did that ...
... So am I, said Mr. Jacobs, with his bland, innocent smile. The Woman's Way CHAPTER XXX In the circumstances, ...
... idea he'll be glad to see me! We'll go-no, not now-stopping short-I'll go to the show to-night. You'll take me, Derrick? she said, eagerly. ...
... Thexford Hall an invitation from Sydney Green and his wife, otherwise, Lord and Lady Heyton. That dinner is marked with a white stone in the ...
... like that, said her husband, sullenly, and with an affectation of righteous resentment. I'm fond of her I shouldn't have done-well, what I ...
... demanded the Marquess. Surely you owe it to me! No, I have buried the past, said Mr. Clendon. Let it lie. But I will tell you why ...
... things after tea, miss, or now at once? I am to wait on you. Oh, that's very nice, said Celia. You will not have much trouble, at any rate, ...