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lukescalone's review against another edition
3.0
This was a really rough book for me--it's really important to the development of feminism in the United States, but the meandering style made it much harder than it needed to be.
There were some really interesting passages on marriage here.
There were some really interesting passages on marriage here.
lukasrch's review against another edition
3.0
"Man, in the order of time, was developed first; as energy comes before harmony; power before beauty.
Woman was therefore under his care as an elder. He might have been her guardian and teacher.
But as human nature goes not straight forward, but by excessive action and then reaction in an undulated course, he misunderstood and abused his advantages, and became her temporal master instead of her spiritual sire." (100)
Woman was therefore under his care as an elder. He might have been her guardian and teacher.
But as human nature goes not straight forward, but by excessive action and then reaction in an undulated course, he misunderstood and abused his advantages, and became her temporal master instead of her spiritual sire." (100)