Enfrancisement of Women: An Essay by Mrs. John Stuart MillWoman's Suffrage Association, 1868 - 27 páginas |
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active minds agreeable alleged hardening America aristocracy assertion bad influences become character CHARLES ELLIOTT chartist civil claim Cog-Wheel Cogs companions conscience convention democratic dependent domestic duty employments ENFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN England ennoble and elevate equality evil exercise exist faculties favor feelings freedom getting rid half the species human ical improvement incompatibility individual injustice intellect JOHN STUART MILL justice labor law to exclude legal inferiority less liberty lives married maternity argument mental middle ages Missouri mode moral mothers occupation opinions personal interest pleasure political portion possessors of power practice present principle proper sphere pursuit of happiness pursuits question rare reason renders Resolved rulers seldom selfish sex or class side sidered slavery society STOP-GEAR strong-minded suppose tain tend things thor tion truth tyranny unfeminine UNIVERSAL CLOTHES WRINGER vanities virtue vulgar Washer WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN wife wife's influence wives woman woman's earning word male
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Página 10 - As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up one half of these creatures, and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions, and the other half to a perfectly opposite set, of course their understandings will differ, as one or the other sort of occupations has called this or that talent into action; there is surely no occasion to go into any deeper or more abstruse reasoning, in order to explain so very simple...
Página 21 - ... and a field for its practical application. Both motives are cut off from those who are told from infancy that thought, and all its greater applications, are other people's business, while theirs is to make themselves agreeable to other people. High...
Página 7 - That those who were physically weaker should have been made legally inferior, is quite conformable to the mode in which the world has been governed. Until very lately, the rule of physical strength was the general law of human affairs. Throughout history, the nations, races, classes, which found themselves the strongest, either in muscles, in riches, or in military discipline, have conquered and held in subjection the rest. If, even in the most improved nations, the law of the sword is at last discountenanced...
Página 27 - ... there is not more than one in ten thousand who does not dislike and fear strength, sincerity, or high spirit in a woman. They are therefore anxious to earn pardon and toleration for whatever of these qualities their writings may exhibit on other subjects, by a studied display of submission on this : that they may give no occasion for vulgar men to say (what nothing will prevent vulgar men from saying), that learning makes women unfeminine, and that literary ladies are likely to be bad wives.
Página 15 - ... in women than weakness. Surely weak minds in weak bodies must ere long cease to be even supposed to be either attractive or amiable. But, in truth, none of these arguments and considerations touch the foundations of the subject. The real question is, whether it is right and expedient that onehalf of the human race should pass through life in a state of forced subordination to the other half.
Página 1 - Most of our readers will probably learn from these pages for the first time, that there has arisen in the United States, and in the most civilized and enlightened portion of them, an organized agitation on a new question — new, not to thinkers, nor to any one by whom the principles of free and popular government are felt as well as acknowledged, but new, and even unheardof, as a subject for public meetings and practical political action. This question is, the enfranchisement of women...
Página 11 - ... men of the same class, were at a less distance below them than any one else was, and often, in their absence, represented them in their functions and authority, — numbers of heroic chatelaines, like Jeanne de Montfort, or the great Countess of Derby as late even as the time of Charles I., distinguished themselves not only by their political but their military capacity. In the centuries immediately before and after the Reformation, ladies of royal houses...
Página 12 - There is no need to make provision by law, that a woman shall not carry on the active details of a household, or of the education of children, and at the same time practise a profession, or be elected to Parliament. Where incompatibility is real, it will take care of itself; but there is gross injustice in making the incompatibility...
Página 13 - The truly horrible effects of the present state of the law among the lowest of the working population is exhibited in those cases of hideous mal-treatment of their wives by working men, with which every newspaper, every police report, teems. Wretches unfit to have the smallest authority over any living thing have a helpless woman for their household slave. These excesses could not exist if women both earned and had the right to possess a, part of the income of the family.
Página 6 - ... which those to whom it is permitted most prize, and to be deprived of which they feel to be most insulting; when not only political liberty, but personal freedom of action, is the prerogative of a caste; when, even in the exercise of industry, almost all employments which task the higher faculties in an important field, which lead to distinction, riches, or even pecuniary independence, are fenced round as the exclusive domain of the predominant section...