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Woman and her Master: Volume 1 Sydney Morgan

Woman and her Master: Volume 1 By Sydney Morgan

Woman and her Master: Volume 1 by Sydney Morgan


Summary

Sydney, Lady Morgan (?1783-1859) was a successful Irish novelist whose work often focused on discrimination. Woman and her Master, published in 1840, is a historical survey of the position of women in society. Morgan strongly criticizes legal discrimination against women, and emphasizes women's influential role in world history.

Woman and her Master: Volume 1 Summary

Woman and her Master: Volume 1 by Sydney Morgan

Sydney, Lady Morgan (?1783-1859) is best remembered as a novelist whose highly successful historical romances often dealt with sexual, religious and racial discrimination. This work, published in 1840, examines the role of women in history. Morgan originally planned to write four volumes, but owing to her ill health only the first two, focusing on the Old Testament and classical civilization, were completed. Morgan proposes the view that women were really the dominant sex that shaped human society. She criticizes the legal discrimination against women that persists even in an age when superiority is no longer defined by physical strength. In Volume 1 she focuses on 'savage' and 'semi-civilized' peoples, and examples of societies as described in the Old Testament. Morgan writes vividly and passionately about the indignities to which women are subjected by men. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=morgsy

Table of Contents

Book I: 1. Woman; 2. The women of savage life, of semi-civilized tribes; 3. The women of the East; 4. The women of the Hebrews, under the Patriarchs; 5. The women of the Hebrews, under the Egyptian Captivity; 6. Women of the Hebrews under the Judges - Deborah; 7. Women of the Hebrews under the Philistines - the mother of Samson, Naomi and Ruth, Hannah; 8. The women of the Hebrews under the Monarchy - the Witch of Endor; 9. The Hebrew women under the Monarchy continued - Abigail, Michal, Bathsheba; Book II: 1. The women of the Hebrews under the Monarchy - the Queen of Sheba; 2. The women of the Hebrews under the Monarchy - the Egyptian princesses; 3. The women of the Hebrews on the separation of Israel and Judah; 4. The women of the Hebrews - Huldah, Judith, Esther; Book III: 1. The women of classical antiquity in Greece; 2. The domestic life of Pericles - Aspasia.

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NLS9781108019330
9781108019330
1108019331
Woman and her Master: Volume 1 by Sydney Morgan
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2010-10-28
348
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