"Woman's Right to Labor," Or, Low Wages and Hard Work: In Three Lectures, Delivered in Boston, November, 1859 |
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Page i - How high, beneficent, sternly inexorable, if forgotten, is the duty laid, not on women only, but on every creature, in regard to these particulars !"— T.
Page 115 - by favor of the Faculty, but, like any other German student, by writing the customary Latin dissertation, as well as by bravely defending, in public disputation, a number of medical theses. After that, she took up her permanent abode at Darmstadt, indefatigable in the exercise
Page 17 - whether civilized or uncivilized ; and I am prepared to prove it. I do not mean that rocking the cradle and making bread is as hard work as any, but that women have always been doing man's work, and that all the outcry society makes against
Page 54 - following extract, cut from a weekly paper while I am writing this note, will plainly show: — " The Pennsylvania Medical Society has exhibited a narrowmindedness altogether disgraceful to its members, by adopting a resolution recommending ' the members of the regular profession to withhold from the faculties and graduates of Female Medical Colleges all countenance and support; and that
Page 67 - In London, recently, one accomplished female engraver has turned her steel plates into a pleasant country-house, which she means to furnish with the proceeds of her delicate painting on glass. A whole volume might be written concerning English female printers. Turning over some old books the other day in the Antiquarian Rooms at Worcester, I came upon Elizabeth Bathurst's
Page 44 - This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid The worth of our work, perhaps.
Page 54 - cannot, consistently with sound medical ethics, consult or hold professional intercourse with their professors or alumni.' The Female Medical Colleges of Pennsylvania, it should be remembered, are strict allopathic: so we are forced to conclude, that the objection to them is found solely upon the fact that they afford the means of education to women. We echo the sentiment of the
Page 17 - for women is not to protect women, but a certain class called ladies. Now, I believe that work is good for ladies ; so let us look at the truth.
Page 83 - Fringe and tassel makers, Cap-makers, Fur-sewers, Clothiers, Hair-cloth weavers, and Collar-makers, Map-colorers. the race-courses to time the horses. Men and women do not compete with each other there; but both are at service, with a steam-engine for their master. For the first two months, the women earn two dollars and fifty cents a
Page 135 - A very important work could be done in this city by the establishment of a proper Training-School for Servants. One reason why our house-work is so miserably done is, that it is never regarded as a profession, in which a certain degree of excellence must be attained, but rather as a