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Sinopsis
Rethinking the Woman Problem asks how culture, psychology, and history shape women’s roles and equality.
This thoughtful examination argues that social change depends less on money and markets than on deeper ideas about womanhood, education, and the aims of companionship. The book considers how traditions like the “lady” and the gentlewoman have influenced intimate life, work, and self‑definition, while inviting readers to imagine a more freely developed individuality for both sexes.
- Understand the long debate about feminine psychology and the limits of broad gender generalizations.
- See how education, culture, and social expectations interact to shape women’s opportunities.
- Explore multiple feminine ideals—from the lady to the comrade and the modern equal partner—and their effects on relationships.
- Learn how historical shifts in marriage, family life, and labor challenge traditional roles.
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Excerpt from A Survey of the Woman Problem: From the German of Rosa Mayreder
The woman's movement is due to three different causes, and has three different aims in view. In my opinion, these ought to be considered separately, how ever intimately they may be connected with one another, and however true it may be that, taken in conjunction with one another, they constitute the essential move ment. Its threefold basis is economic, social, ethical psychological.
During the few years in which the movement has begun to pass from the theoretical stage to the political, the economic and social problems have come to the front, while the ethical-psychological part has been kept in the background. I have, however, not dealt at all with the economic, and only slightly with the social, sides of the question. Although I recognise that without the economic revolution caused by the introduction of machinery the movement could hardly have become a practical one, yet I maintain that historically it has an idealistic, not a materialistic, origin. However great an influence the economic impulses may exert, much more importance is to be attached to the ideal postulates of the woman's movement. Economic improvements would have little effect in changing the real relations of the sexes. Even if a woman were able to gain her living independently of man, still she would not be free unless quite other influences began to operate in her favour.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from A Survey of the Woman Problem: From the German of Rosa Mayreder
In this book I have dealt in my own way with the problems of the woman's movement. Although in some respects I am not in entire agreement with this movement, I regard it, nevertheless, as one of the phenomena which honourably distinguish the present epoch from all previous periods of human history; nay, more, it seems to me to be one of the finest manifestations of an epoch which otherwise, in its poverty of ideals, of noble feelings, and of passionate beliefs, betrays evidence of degeneration.
Many of the ideas contained in my work may frequently have been expressed before. The first outlines were made fifteen years ago, and certain experiences of my early youth gave me the initial impulse to write it. Those readers, however, who are already acquainted with the literature on the subject will, I hope, find enough that is new to compensate them for what is old; while that large majority which, unfortunately, still knows very little about the movement, must remain satisfied with the comprehensive view of it which I have endeavoured to present.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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