The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Woman.

Caird, Mona.

Verlag: London: George Redway, 1897.

ÒWith its belief that legal, social and political equality would effect change from withinÉThe Morality of Marriage and Other Essays (1897), [is] a collection of [Mona CairdÕs] most important feminist articlesÉCairdÕs work explores the themes most characteristic of the time: rights (of citizenship) versus duties (morality, rationality); the nature of womanhood (equal or different?); the sexual division of labour; and independence versus protection (e.g., relating to employment laws). ÒWriting from within a tradition of Enlightenment thought, Caird asserted womenÕs right to full citizenship and their duty to respectÉtheir own freedom. Although equal by nature, women and men had been made different through nurture. WomenÕs artificial and debilitating difference resulted from the separation of spheres and womenÕs enforced dependency on and subordination to men: in other words, from their slave-status under patriarchy. Though casting herself as a mere reformer and melioristÉCaird called for nothing less than a revolution,Ó (Heilmann, p. 73). Octavvo. xvi, 239 pp. PublisherÕs brown cloth stamped in gilt. Light soiling to cloth and rubbing to head of spine. A large copy with edges untrimmed. Contemporary ink signature to front flyleaf (Edmund C. Barnett). Foxing to endpapers and first and last few leaves. Otherwise quite clean throughout. A good, tight copy of this collection of the authorÕs Òmost important feminist articles.Ó First edition. Alice Mona Caird (1854 Ð 1932) was a journalist, experimental novelist, and feminist whose work Òstimulated widespread discussion of such controversial subjects as undesired marital sex, birth control, unwanted pregnancy, single motherhood, wages for housework, public childcare, free relationships and the right to adultery after marital breakdown,Ó (Heilmann, ÒMona Caird (1854 - 1932).Ó WomenÕs History Review, vol. 5, no. 1, 1996. p. 67). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 16965

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Titel: The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on...
Verlag: London: George Redway, 1897.
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1. Auflage