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Her interest was in woman's suffering, and how it could be alleviated. She
wanted to offer relief to women married to brutal husbands, to women chained by
law and convention to drunken men, and indeed to all women bound by marriage
to a ...
Her interest was in woman's suffering, and how it could be alleviated. She
wanted to offer relief to women married to brutal husbands, to women chained by
law and convention to drunken men, and indeed to all women bound by marriage
to a ...
Page 192
small, women were treated as inferior to men. In the Christian churches where
priests and parsons testified to the equal significance of all in the sight of God
women were given no part in the conduct of divine worship. As in the home, they
were ...
small, women were treated as inferior to men. In the Christian churches where
priests and parsons testified to the equal significance of all in the sight of God
women were given no part in the conduct of divine worship. As in the home, they
were ...
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In some quarters it was maintained that by preferring pleasure to duty women
were contributing to the decrease in the birth rate. The spread of hedonist values
had seduced women to abandon their duties as wives and mothers. Dr James ...
In some quarters it was maintained that by preferring pleasure to duty women
were contributing to the decrease in the birth rate. The spread of hedonist values
had seduced women to abandon their duties as wives and mothers. Dr James ...
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Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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| Title | A History of Australia: The people make laws, 1888-1915 Volume 5 of A History of Australia: 1888-1915. The People Make Laws, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 Volume 5 of A History of Australia: The People Make Laws. 1888-1915, Manning Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1981 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Feb 2009 |
| ISBN | 0522842232, 9780522842234 |
| Length | 464 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand History / General |
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