In her place : a documentary history of prejudice against women /
Joshi, S. T.,1958-
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books,
2006.
The long history of prejudice against women has been the focus of many academic studies, but until now there has been no attempt to collect actual examples of this prejudice from books, articles, and scholarly monographs. Now S.T. Joshi has gathered together dozens of works that document the scorn and contempt for the weaker sex that most women endured for countless generations until very recently. As Joshi points out, this is the work, not of a few isolated cranks, but of the leading members of the intellectual, social, and political communities: scientists, educators, clerics, and politicians. Reading the unabashed bias against women so evident in these pages brings the entrenched misogyny of American society into vivid focus and makes one appreciate all the more the immense efforts of feminists who for more than a century have worked to overcome the stereotypes of womanly behavior long enforced by men.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-447) and index.
pt. 1. Some overviews -- 1. Woman's rights (1867) / John Todd -- 2. Evils of woman's revolt against the old standards (1927) / Hugh L. McMenamin -- 3. The entrenchment of the American witch (1962) / George Frazier -- pt. 2. Woman's "place" -- 4. Woman, in her social and domestic character (1831) / Elizabeth Sandford -- 5. The curse of Eve (1903) / Margaret Bisland -- 6. The home builder (1908) / Lyman Abbott -- 7. The normal American woman (1908) / Charles W. Eliot -- pt. 3. Scientists on women -- 8. Woman : physiologically considered (1843) / Alexander Walker -- 9. Sex and character (1903) / Otto Weininger -- 10. The inevitability of patriarchy (1973) / Steven Goldberg -- pt. 4. Women and intellect -- 11. Mental differences between men and women (1887) / George J. Romanes -- 12. On the absence of the creative faculty in women (1891) / Molly Elliot Seawell -- 13. The weaker sex : a scientific ramble (1926) / James H. Leuba -- pt. 5. Women and education -- 14. Sex in education ; or, A fair chance for the girls (1873) / Edward H. Clarke -- 15. Higher education of women and race suicide (1905) / A. Lapthorn Smith -- 16. Womanly education for women (1915) / John M. McBryde Jr.
pt. 6. Women and work -- 17. Women's mistakes about work (1879) / Anonymous -- 18. The education and efficiency of women (1910) / Emily Greene Balch -- 19. The psychology of supervising the working woman (1942) / Donald A. Laird, Eleanor C. Laird -- 20. Memo to the American woman (1966) / Patricia Coffin -- pt. 7. Women and sex -- 21. Feminism : its fallacies and follies (1916) / John Martin -- 22. Female sexuality (1931) / Sigmund Freud -- 23. How to get and keep a husband (1957) / Kate Constance -- pt. 8. Women and marriage -- 24. Commentaries on the laws of England (1765-1769) / William Blackstone -- 25. The young wife (1837) / William A. Alcott -- 26. These women (1925) / William Johnson -- 27. Men and marriage (1986) / George Gilder -- pt. 9. Women and religion -- 28. Female influence, and the true Christian mode of its exercise (1837) / Jonathan F. Stearns -- 29. Woman's profession as mother and educator (1872) / Catharine E. Beecher -- 30. "The war of the sexes" (1896) / John Paul MacCorrie -- 31. The influence of women and its cure (1936) / John Erskine -- 32. The decline of femininity (1945) / Joseph H. Fichter, SJ --
pt. 10. Women and suffrage -- 33. The woman question (1869) / Orestes Augustus Brownson -- 34. Woman suffrage : the reform against nature (1869) / Horace Bushnell -- 35. The blank-cartridge ballot (1896) / Rossiter Johnson -- 36. The wrong and peril of woman suffrage (1909) / James Monroe Buckley -- 37. Woman adrift : the menace of suffragism (1912) / Harold Owen -- 38. Socialism, feminism, and suffragism : the terrible triplets (1915) / Benjamin Vestal Hubbard -- 39. The fundamental error of woman suffrage (1915) / William Parker -- pt. 11. Women hating women -- 40. Discontented women (1896) / Amelia E. Barr -- 41. The abdication of man (1898) / Elizabeth Bisland -- 42. The business of being a woman (1912) / Ida M. Tarbell -- pt. 12. Backlash : men fight back -- 43. For maids and mothers : the woman of to-day, and of to-morrow (1899) / Harry Thurston Peck -- 44. Equal rights for men (1937) / Harry Hibschman -- 45. So why do rapes occur? (1979) / Roy U. Schenk.
The long history of prejudice against women has been the focus of many academic studies, but until now there has been no attempt to collect actual examples of this prejudice from books, articles, and scholarly monographs. Now S.T. Joshi has gathered together dozens of works that document the scorn and contempt for the weaker sex that most women endured for countless generations until very recently. As Joshi points out, this is the work, not of a few isolated cranks, but of the leading members of the intellectual, social, and political communities: scientists, educators, clerics, and politicians. Reading the unabashed bias against women so evident in these pages brings the entrenched misogyny of American society into vivid focus and makes one appreciate all the more the immense efforts of feminists who for more than a century have worked to overcome the stereotypes of womanly behavior long enforced by men.
Sexism
Sex role
Prejudices