Woman as force in history : a study in traditions and realities /
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, p...
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New York :
Octagon Books,
1976, ©1946.
New York : 1981 |
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Table of Contents:
- Everybody's interest: man and woman
- Attitudes of women
- Attitudes of men
- The haunting idea: its nature and origin
- Sway of Blackstone in the United States
- The challenge of legislation and equity
- Equality as the escape from subjection
- Theory of subjection tested by long legal history
- Women in the age of faith
- "judge of equity"
- Force of woman in mediaeval economic and social life
- Evidences in mediaeval educational and intellectual interests
- Woman as force in long history
- An illustrative bibliography.