Women and a changing civilization /

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Holtby, Winifred,, 1898-1935. Women and a changing civilization / Winifred Holtby. - Chicago : Cassandra Editions, 1978.
213 p. ; 23 cm. Reprint of the 1935 ed. published by Longmans, Green, New York under title: Women and a changing civilisation. Content notes : 1. Hardly human -- Weakness and mystery -- Enter the ladies -- The Greeks had a word for them -- Mothers in Israel -- Roman matrons -- The wind from the East -- The church and the barbarians -- The age of chivalry -- The renaissance and the puritan -- Three revolutions -- 2. The vindication of humanity -- The importance of Mary Wollstonecraft -- The vindication of citizenship -- The vindication of intelligence -- The vindication of personality -- The right to work -- The right to property -- 3. The inconveniences of transition -- The inferiority complex -- The chivalry complex -- The slump complex -- The modern girl -- Are spinsters frustrated? -- Do modern women make good mothers? -- The cost of housekeeping -- 4. Backwards and forwards -- Herr Hitler finds a cure for unemployment -- The intellectuals despair of reason -- Nationalism and the jingo -- Mussolini and the population theory -- The pope and female modesty -- "The march of the women" -- Moscow has a plan -- The conditions of equality 0915864282 (lib. bdg.) : $11.95 9780915864287 (lib. bdg.) 0915864274 (pbk.) : $5.00 9780915864270 (pbk.) * Women - History. Femmes - Histoire. Vrouwendiscriminatie.