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This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issuesmotherhood, women''s legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women''s education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty.

These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote p

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CONTENTS PART I. 1. 2. 3. PART II. 4. 5. 6. 7. PART III. 8. 9. 10. 11. PART IV. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/06/1983
      ISBN13: 9780804711715, 978-0804711715
      ISBN10: 0804711712
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issuesmotherhood, women''s legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women''s education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty.

      These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote p

      Table of Contents
      CONTENTS PART I. 1. 2. 3. PART II. 4. 5. 6. 7. PART III. 8. 9. 10. 11. PART IV. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

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