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The publication of A Woman Of The Century was undertaken to create a biographical record of notable 19th-century women. It included biographies of women considered noteworthy because of their actions in the church, at the bar, in literature and music, in art, drama, science and invention or in social and political reform philanthropy.
"But the entire sex life of women became disorganized, which the social devaluation of children and the difficulties imposed with their reading under the new conditions." [ 1 ] Lundberg and Farnham present sexuality as a dichotomy between men and women: dominant versus submissive, specifically as men actively penetrate, pleasure, and impregnate ...
Alice Clark argued that in 16th century England, women were engaged in many aspects of industry and agriculture. The home was a central unit of production and women played a central role in running farms, and some trades and landed estates. Their useful economic roles gave them a sort of equality with their husbands.
Opera, or the Undoing of Women (French: L’Opéra ou la Défaite des femmes) is a 1979 book by French philosopher Catherine Clément, in which the author explores the way in which traditional operatic plots often feature the death of female characters – in her words, "the infinitely repetitive spectacle of a woman who dies, murdered."
In poorer families, women would have worked to earn money. Athenian women had limited capacity to own property, although they could have significant dowries, and could inherit items. The area of civic life in which Athenian women were most free to participate was the religious and ritual sphere.
This book follows the lièzhuàn (列傳 "arrayed biographies") biographical format established by the Chinese historian Sima Qian.The word liènǚ (列女 "famous women in history") is sometimes understood as liènǚ (烈女 "women martyrs"), which Neo-Confucianists used to mean a "woman who commits suicide after her husband's death rather than remarry; [a] woman who dies defending her honor."
According to Fonte's biographer, Fonte completed The Worth of Women just before her death in 1592. [3] One of Fonte's daughters claimed that Fonte finished The Worth of Women "the very day before her death in childbirth". [4] The Worth of Women was highly influenced by The Decameron, a work that Fonte often alludes to in the text. [5]
Letter to Women is a pastoral letter written by Pope John Paul II to all women, and deals with the rights and dignity of women, the many challenges that women in the modern era have had to face, and ways in which the cause of woman could be forwarded in the world.