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Woman and Her Master - Volume 2

Woman and Her Master - Volume 2

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 110801934X
ISBN13: 9781108019347
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 28 2010
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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 sheer physical strength. In Volume 2 she focuses on examples from classical times, particularly some of the most influential Roman empresses. Morgan writes vividly and passionately about the indignities to which women were and are subjected by men. For more information on this author, see http: //orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=morgsy

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