Woman's Voice
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About This Book
Lucia Graves, daughter of the poet Robert Graves, was raised by her parents on the island of Majorca, in postwar Spain. At home she spoke English and absorbed the family's thoroughly British culture; in her mountain village she spoke the local variant of Catalan and was steeped in the island's Mediterranean folkways; and in convent school she received a rigid Franco-era Spanish education, a mix of Catholicism and fascist ideology. Her beautifully nuanced memoir, already published in England to great acclaim, is a profound meditation on how these three cultures and languages-English, Catalan, a...
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- Woman’s Voice
- EDITOR’S PREFACE
- INDEX OF AUTHORS
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- BOOK I The Woman Movement
- THE WOMAN MOVEMENT
- The Most Brilliant Period
- Woman’s Awakening
- Unanimity of Needs
- Coming Into Her Own
- The Sisterhood of Women
- The Revolt of Women
- Women’s Qualifications for Suffrage
- A Generation Ago
- To Raise the Standards of Life
- Legislative Responsibility
- He Shall See the New Woman
- The Freedom of the Women
- A Woman’s Question
- Because They Cannot Vote
- The Plea of the Women
- A Prisoner in Bow
- Out of the Dark
- All Methods Employed
- Glory in Power
- Feminism a Tree
- Woman Has Justified Herself
- The Story of Katie Malloy
- The New Woman
- What Is This Government?
- Woman Has Helped
- Our Common Interests
- Women
- Allegory on Wimmin’s Rights
- For Woman Suffrage
- A Spade’s A Spade
- Woman on the Scaffold
- A Lady Rebel
- “The Gibraltar of Our Cause”
- A Great Life
- Suffrage a Means to an End
- Man Cannot Represent Woman
- Universality
- Mankind Our Neighbor
- Clearing Up the Muss
- Wisdom Comes with Freedom
- Women to Men
- The Call to Social Service
- Submission
- The Price of Liberty
- Woman’s Right
- From “The Convert”
- Rights, Privileges and Capacities
- The Working Woman’s Awakening
- Woman’s Weak Dependency
- A Pageant of Great Women
- The Prayer of the Modern Woman
- By Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw
- By Julia Wedgewood
- BOOK II The Home
- THE HOME
- “The Woman’s Place”
- The Spirit of the Home
- Lovers of Home
- Woman’s High Achievement
- Woman’s Sphere the Home
- Woman and the Primitive Home
- The Poor and Good Housing
- Where She Lived
- The War and the Home
- The Home
- Honest Partnership in the Home
- The Home Influence
- Then—Back to the Home!
- Women’s Lodging Houses
- The Inefficient Home
- Immorality and the Home
- Perpetuate the Ideal
- Market Value of Home Labor
- Domestic Strife
- The Child at Home
- Cannot Replace the Home
- Man, Woman, and the Home
- Mother and Child-Character
- The Home of the Workingman
- The Hotel “Home”
- The Domestic Home Destroyed
- BOOK III The Child
- THE CHILD
- Child
- Little Beloved
- More Woman’s Work
- The Call of the Unborn
- The Nursery a University
- Parental Duty
- My Little Son
- Children Innumerable
- Quantity vs. Quality in Children
- Fewer and Better Children
- Equality in Fitness
- Where Women Have Long Voted
- Reason and the Child
- The Government and Child Life
- The Rising Value of a Baby
- Ideals of the Child
- The Child and Parental Youth
- Consideration for Others
- A Blot on Civilization
- Teaching the Child Citizenship
- For Father’s Amusement
- The Factory Child
- The Cotton-Mill Child
- The Crusade of the Children
- Child Labor
- Need the Vote for the Children
- Fettered Little Children
- Announce Her Maturity
- The Cry of the Children
- Children’s Ward
- Child Slavery
- BOOK IV Mother
- MOTHER
- Rock Me to Sleep
- The Mother
- The Mother’s Influence
- Fatherhood Cannot Be Motherhood
- The Price
- Passionate Instinct
- Functions Identical
- The Adolescent Child
- Mother
- Wise Mothers
- The Factory Worker and Motherhood
- Mothers
- A Good Mother
- The Mother a Creator
- Collective Motherhood
- Woman and Mother
- The Companion Mother
- Parental Respect for Right of Children
- The Ancient and Modern Mother
- The Mother
- I Am the Mother-Heart
- By Mrs. C. E. Porter
- BOOK V Love and Marriage
- LOVE AND MARRIAGE
- To Love on Feeling Its Approach
- Ashes of Life
- The Greatest Love
- Love-Songs
- A Man Never Gets Over It
- Marriage, a Partnership
- One of the Best Things
- What Is Love?
- The Art of Loving
- A New Stimulus to Marriage
- The Old Suffragist
- Postponing Marriage
- Marriage of the “Friends”
- The Love That Pales
- When Marriage Meant Bondage
- A Possible Utopia
- Marriage and the Labor Market
- Marriage Laws in 1850
- A Preventive of Divorce
- Overheard in the Marriage Congress
- The Cry of Man to Woman
- When Love Went By
- The Flirt
- I Can Go to Love Again
- Marriage the Sole Means of Maintenance
- The Confidante
- Mirandy on the Monotony of Domesticity
- Marriage Not an Assurance of Support
- The Price of Love
- BOOK VI Woman and Labor
- WOMAN AND LABOR
- The Housewife
- Woman in the Home
- Morality and Woman in Industry
- Wasted Energy and Talent
- Sisterhood in Labor
- Women Are Going to Work
- Development Through Choice of Work
- Woman’s Place
- Woman’s Demand for Work
- The Left-Over Women
- Sex-Parasitism
- The Changed Conditions of Tomorrow
- Woman’s Work in Woman’s Way
- Women Workers in New England
- Women Who Sit at Ease
- One-Fifth of the Women Population at Work
- Woman’s Awakening
- The Simple Right to Live
- Woman’s Wages
- Song of the Working Girls
- Economics and the Home
- How Is She Housed?
- Orchards
- The Exploitation of Workingwomen
- Success Through Work
- Woman and Social Betterment
- Woman and the Dinner Pail
- The Lady
- Unequal Distribution of Labor
- The Working Woman Speaks
- Bondwomen
- By Belle Lindner Israels
- BOOK VII Education
- EDUCATION
- Soul Murder in the Schools
- The Old and New Schools
- Essentials in Education
- The Greatness of Froebel
- Mothers’ Library
- The Aim and End of Education
- Standards Raised by Women Teachers
- Educating Children
- The Mother’s Task
- A Plan for Improving Female Education
- A Moral Crusade
- Intellectual Women of Rome
- The Power of Education
- The Vision Realized
- Vocational Training for Girls
- Traditions Upset
- The History of Women’s Education
- The Professions Educational
- Woman’s Struggle for Educational Rights
- Equal Advantages of Education
- Intellect Wins
- Education and Votes for Women
- Democratization of Learning
- Educating the Daughter
- The World of Scholarship a Man’s World
- Social Education Important
- To Reach the Divine
- BOOK VIII War and Peace
- WAR AND PEACE
- These Latter Days
- Breeding Machines
- Babies Bred for War
- War Cripples
- The Devonshire Mother
- The Last Racial War
- The Early Morning Funeral
- Russian Women in Time of War
- Red Easter
- The Rising Value of a Baby
- Wars Will Cease
- The Prussians in Poland
- The Deserter
- The Prayer of the Toilers
- Righteous Wars
- By Ellen Key
- BOOK IX Classes
- CLASSES
- The Poet’s Task
- Out of the Darkness
- Two Sides of the Shield
- Women and the Oppressed
- God and the Strong Ones
- My Sister’s Heritage
- Socialist Prayer
- Outcasts
- The New Sense of Justice
- Break Down the Wall
- Class Intolerance Passing
- Servitude
- Factories Instead of Homes
- The Voteless Sex
- The Glad Day of Universal Brotherhood
- Working Girls Must Cooperate
- Organized Woman Labor
- The Enslaved
- Inequality for Women
- Lore of the Woods
- Moses, the Strike Leader
- After the Fight
- The Fool’s Christmas
- Class Legislation
- Despair
- Breadth of Woman Suffrage
- The Poor Sex
- Of What Use Is It
- Breaking Up in Violence
- The Workers’ Right
- Women’s Labor Organizations
- The Happy Warrior
- Abolish “Dependent Classes”
- The Servant Class
- Breshkovskaya
- The Revolutionist
- The Old Comrade
- The Voice of Labor
- Our New Aristocracy
- BOOK X Miscellaneous
- MISCELLANEOUS
- In Passing
- A Contrast
- Mary and Magdalene
- Dare We Judge?
- Two Storks
- The Doomed Men’s Message
- Road Song
- Dress Reform
- Giving Up Her Name
- Purse and the Soul
- I Heard the Spirit Singing
- The Difference
- The Unfair Status
- Custom
- A Thanksgiving
- Women Run in Molds
- A Sheaf of Quotations
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