Woman and her Master 2 Volume Set
Published on 28. October 2010
Book
774 pages
978-1-108-01935-4 (ISBN)
Description
Sydney, Lady Morgan (?1783-1859) is best remembered as an Irish novelist whose highly successful historical romances often dealt with sexual, religious and racial discrimination. One of her last works, Woman and her Master, 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, and 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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 322 mm
Width: 250 mm
Thickness: 70 mm
Weight
1300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-01935-4 (9781108019354)
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Content
Volume 1: 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. Volume 2: Book III continued: 3. Women of classical antiquity continued - the women of Sparta; Book 4: 1. The women of Italy, before the Romans, under the Roman republic; 2. The women of Rome, during the Proscription - Cornelia, Portia, Fulvia; 3. The women of the Empire - Livia, Plancina, the first Agrippina; 4. The women of Rome under the Empire continued - Messalina, Julia, Agrippina; 5. The women of Rome under the Empire continued - Epicharis, Polla Argenteria, Paulina, Pomponia Grecina; 6. The women of the Empire - Sextilia, Veleda, Epinina, Domitia Longina; 7. The women of the Empire - Plotina Pompeia, Julia Sabina; 8. The women of the Empire - Galeria Faustina, Annia Faustina; 9. The women of the Empire - Fadilla, Marcia, Lucilla, the Empress Crispina; 10. The women of the Empire - the Empress Julia Domna; 11. The women of the Empire - Julia Maesa, Soaemias, Mammea; 12. The women of the Empire - Paulina, Victoria; 13. The women of the Empire - Zenobia; 14. The women of the Empire - Valeria, Theodora, Prisca, Constantia, Helena.