The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women
The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

The First Essay on the Political Rights of WomenMore than one hundred years have passed away since,...
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Author: Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat
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The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

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The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

$104.35 $52.15
Author: Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

More than one hundred years have passed away since, in 1789, the Marquis de Condorcet wrote his Esquisse sur lAdmission des Femmes au Droit de Cit, and yet the problem of womens enfranchisement still awaits an equitable solution. Those of us who are old enough to remember the inauguration of the popular movement for the extension of the franchise to women (which may be dated from the day in which our late noble leader, John Stuart Mill, addressed the House of Commons on this subject, in May, 1867), feel that our lives are passing away while wearily awaiting the dilatory educational development of mankind in this question. The essential principles of our claim have been reiterated again and again. We form one-half of the human race, and need recognition by the law as much as the other half of the race. But, as long as our law-makers are not directly responsible to us for their conduct in Parliament, they may, and do, safely neglect our interests, and pass laws which jeopardise our liberties and subordinate our just rights of person, property, and offspring to the supposed interests of the men whom they represent. The spirit which animates Parliament pervades the whole of our social life; and women suffer from lack of educational facilities, and from obstacles to success in industrial and professional life, in ways which have no parallel in the case of men. All these things have been urged again and again until we are weary of repeating them; and we ask ourselves, as we mentally review our position, Where shall we find some new argument wherewith to arrest the attention, and compel the action, of those who have the power, but seem to lack the will, to do justice? It is curious to note that the great point on which the mass of men seem united is their sex. Prejudices of race, of caste, of colour may be overcome; but the pride of sex remains. Rights of citizenship are[4] accorded to the small shopkeeper, artisan, lodger, agricultural labourer, and to the illiterate who knows no difference between one party and the other, either as to tendencies or methods of government. The Anglo-Saxon confers rights of citizenship upon the foreigner, upon the negro (as in the United States), upon the Maori (as in New Zealand)the last of whom, sitting in the New Zealand House of Representatives, helped to maintain this glorious prerogative of sex by giving their casting-votes against a measure intended to meet the claims of the Anglo-Saxon women in New Zealand.[1] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 31550
Author: Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat
Release Date: Mar 8, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Vickery, Alice Drysdale, 1844-1929

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