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The Business of Being a Woman

The Business of Being a Woman

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Number of Chapters: 9

Length: 03 hours and 46 minutes

Language: English

How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. "The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which the author feels in the modern woman, of the significance and dignity of the work laid upon her by Nature and by society. Its ideas are the result of a long, if somewhat desultory, observation of the professional, political, and domestic activities of women in this country and in France. These observations have led to certain definite opinions as to those phases of the woman question most in need of emphasis to-day." This book contains, as a footnote, a Declaration of Sentiments which begins 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...' and continues on. A wonderful declaration of the equality of the sexes in many things. This will be a separate section of this project since I think it is excellent in style and sentiment. - Summary by the introduction and BC

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The Uneasy Woman (MaryAnn)
On the Imitation of Man (Lydia Bateman)
The Business of Being a Woman (Jacquelyn Bengfort)
The Socialization of the Home (CCGraham)
The Woman and her Raiment (MaryAnn)
The Woman and Democracy (Lynne T)
The Homeless Daughter (Michele Fry)
The Childless Woman and the Friendless Child (Kathleen Moore)
On the Ennobling of the Woman's Business (Mary Ann Weathers)
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