Foundations of Feminism: A CritiqueR.M. McBride & Company, 1921 - 245 strani The author presents a critique of feminist theory by testing it against contemporary biological, psychological, physiological, and sociological thought. |
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Foundations of Feminism: A Critique - Primary Source Edition Avrom Barnett Predogled ni na voljo - 2013 |
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Stran 138 - The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity.
Stran 141 - As is well known, the experiments of the last generation in educating women have shown their equal competence in school work of elementary, secondary and collegiate grade. . . . The psychologists' measurements lead to the conclusion that this equality of achievement comes from an equality of natural gifts, not from an overstraining of the lesser talents of women. . . . The
Stran 197 - The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else.
Stran 141 - measurements lead to the conclusion that this equality of achievement comes from an equality of natural gifts, not from an overstraining of the lesser talents of women. . . . The differences of men from men and of women from women are nearly as great as the differences between men and women.
Stran 141 - The individual differences within one sex so enormously outweigh the differences between the sexes in these intellectual and semi-intellectual traits, that for practical purposes the sex difference may be disregarded. ... As is well known, the experiments of the
Stran 138 - which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity.
Stran 104 - we have therefore to recognize that in men, as in males generally, there is an organic variational tendency to diverge from the average; in women, as in females generally, an organic tendency, notwithstanding all their facility for minor oscillations, to stability and conservatism involving a diminished individualism and variability.
Stran 35 - to whom all women are especially bound in honor and gratitude for his Gynaecocentric Theory of Life, than which nothing so important to humanity has been advanced since the Theory of Evolution, and nothing so important to women has ever been given to the world.
Stran 128 - Wives' subjection to their husbands is due to the men's instinctive desire to exert power and to the natural inferiority of women in such qualities of mind and body as are essential for personal independence. ... In the sexual impulse itself there are elements which lead to domination on the part of men and submission
Stran 160 - of women suffer more or less at menstruation, and for a large number of these when engaged in industrial pursuits or others, under the command of an employer, humanity dictates that rest from work during the period of pain be afforded whenever