Women and a changing civilization / [electronic resource] Winifred Holtby.

Reprint of the 1935 ed. published by Longmans, Green, New York under title: Women and a changing civilisation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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