Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism

Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism

The feminist movement can be dealt with in two ways: it can be treated as a sociological abstraction, and discussed at length in heavy monographs; or it can be taken as the sum of the action of a lot of women, and taken account of in the lives of individual women. The latter way would be called "journalistic," had not the late William James used it in his "Varieties of Religious Experience." It is a method which preserves the individual flavor, the personal tone and color, which, after all, are the life of any movement. It is, therefore, the method I have chosen for this book. [Pg 8]The ten women whom I have chosen are representative: they give the quality of the woman's movement of today. Charlotte Perkins GilmanJane AddamsEmmeline PankhurstOlive SchreinerIsadora DuncanBeatrice WebbEmma GoldmanMargaret Dreier RobinsEllen Key: surely in these women, [see also the chapter "Freewomen and Dora Marsden."] if anywhere, is to be found the soul of modern feminism! One may inquire why certain other names are not included. There is Maria Montessori, for instance. Her ideas on the education of children are of the utmost importance, and their difference from those of Froebel is another illustration of the difference between the practical minds of women and the idealistic minds of men. But Madame Montessori's relation to the feminist movement is, after all, ancillary. A tremendous lot remains to be done in the way of cooperation for the management of households and the education of children before women who are wives and mothers will be set free to take their part in the work of the outside world. But it is the setting of mothers free, and not the specific kind of education which their children are to receive, which is of interest to us here. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 33584
Author: Dell, Floyd
Release Date: Aug 30, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English