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In this classic, pioneering work on the status and position of women, Mary R. Beard challenges the widely held belief that women have been subject to men throughout the ages. She tests this idea of subjection against historical realities--legal, religious, economic, social, intellectual, military, political, and philosophical--and finds it to be meritless. Beard traces the error back to Sir William Blackstone's interpretation of women's legal status after marrying ("the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage") and argues against this view. In answer to male historians who have failed to acknowledge the real influence of women in history, she provides a lengthy record of outstanding women and their contributions throughout history.
Historian, social reformer, and women's suffrage campaigner, Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958) was one of the most prominent intellectuals of her day. Co-author with her husband, Charles Beard of The Rise of American Civilization: and other works in US history, she also founded the modern field of women's history. This collection of her letters, offers in effect an intellectual biography which is considered to be better documented and more vivid than any previous book about her.
The only collection of work by a groundbreaking historian.
The only collection of work by a groundbreaking historian.
"A teen obsessed with 19th century literature tries to cull advice on life and love from her favorite classic heroines to disastrous results--especially when she falls for the school's resident lothario"--
"The rise of modern feminism, the world-wide political upheavals of the century with their efforts to enlist women as partisans of an old order or a revolution, the new individuals, socialist, fascist, communist and Hitlerite literature on the subject of sex, the avalanche of fiction based on its motif, and the easy habit of generalisation indulged in by psychologists or special pleaders have lured me into an effort to sketch ways that must be traveled before the role of women in the civilising process can be understood at all. My perspective is historical but historians of competence must lay the fundamental basis for a grasp of the subject merely challenged here. If this outline raises question, starts disputes, and draws the kind of criticism which will lead to sounder views, I shall consider my daring justified. -- p. v.
This is a very detailed account written in textbook style and intended for study. The book begins with data such as population growth for each state and then goes on to present factual details of settlement, growth, politics and so on.
A Humble Donk in Nazareth can’t believe that he has been chosen to carry Mary on the road to Bethlehem. Following Joseph, the Donk heads off down the rocky road, only to witness the Lord’s family turned away at every inn. They find room in a stable just in time for the baby’s birth, though the Donk’s not sure why there is such a fuss. Then he meets Baby Jesus himself and knows he’s in the presence of a King. All in his unique voice, The Donk tells how the angels give the Good News to the shepherds and how the Three Kings foil King Herod’s plan. The Donk even helps Herod’s soldier meet the baby and open his heart to Jesus. Mary and Joseph and the Baby and Me is a nine hundred -word rhyming children’s picture book. Perfect to read aloud to children of all ages, the Donk’s Nativity story will become a family holiday favorite.