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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 ...
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 ...
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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 .
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 .
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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 .
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 .
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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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