[PDF] The Unquiet Sex By Helen Watterson Moody eBook

Author : Helen Watterson Moody
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
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ISBN : 9781534873377

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The Unquiet Sex by Helen Watterson Moody. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1898 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Author : Helen Watterson Moody
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2016-03-27
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ISBN : 9781530767687

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MRS. MOODY'S little volume of essays is irreproachable in manner. As to the matter, there is, as the author herself admits in the preface, much to be said in rejoinder. It is the misfortune of her would-be critics that the writer's case has been so sanely and charmingly stated that to disagree with her at any point seems almost a breach of good taste. The essays are thoughtful, graceful and clever, if not novel, in substance, and their main contention is certainly just. There is more or less self-consciousness and restlessness in the feminine world to-day, and it is not an especially winning manifestation. No reasonable person denies this, just as no reasonable person denies that the work of the world is bound to be divided chiefly upon lines of sex, or that the domestic life may be made the most engaging as well as the most useful of women's occupations. But these are axioms, and one does not write books to prove axioms. It remains to be demonstrated that there is enough of unrest in the current affairs of women to justify the dedication of a book to its consideration. It is true that we hear a great deal about "Woman" in the newspapers and reviews, but the circumstances under which she is capitalized and exploited leave doubts in our mind as to whether the fault is her own, or whether she is merely the victim of writers in search of easy "copy." The reviewer ventures to aver that a woman who actually talks or feels about "the Emancipation of Woman," "Woman's Work," or "the future of Woman," is as unique a creature in real life as the traditional white black-bird. A woman of more than middle life and wide experience whom circumstances have thrown much into the society of her own sex and a good half of whose acquaintances have been professional women, stated the other day that she had never known a woman who talked of Woman, she had heard other people say they had heard of such women, but had never come closer than this to meeting the real article, if it exists. Such a statement carries weight and leads one to wonder if the search for such a person might not prove as futile as the hunting of the Snark? What if, after all, "there isn't any Marjorie Daw?" -The Critic, Volume 29