The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers
by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland
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The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers is a collection of essays concerning women's suffrage by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland. "Strange what a difference mere plurality of a noun and mere presence or absence of an article make to my mind. Now Men, Man, and A Man stand for most diverse conceptions. Man,—I think of Mr. Alexander Pope, and of a creature of watery intellect, whose vitality is something between that of a frog and a jumping-jack, and who is diddled puppet-wise by an equally anæmic deity. Man is humanity dehumanized, but Men are about the most human thing there is."
Chapters (25)(click to expand)
- The Joys of Being a Woman AND OTHER PAPERS
- FOREWORD The Ego in the Essay
- CONTENTS
- I The Joys of Being a Woman
- II A Man in the House
- III Old-Clothes Sensations
- IV Luggage and the Lady
- V Detached Thoughts on Boarding
- VI The Lady Alone at Night
- VII In Sickness and in Health
- VIII An Educational Fantasy
- IX My Clothes
- X The Tendency to Testify
- XI Letters and Letter-Writers
- XII The Tyranny of Talent
- XIII The Woman Who Writes
- XIV Picnic Pictures
- XV The Farm Feminine
- XVI A Little Girl and Her Grandmother
- XVII The Wayfaring Woman
- XVIII The Road That Talked
- XIX My Mother’s Gardeners
- XX My Little Town
- XXI Genus Clericum
- XXII Some Difficulties in Doing without Eternity
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