| | 1 | Author: | Gorren, Aline | Add | | | Title: | Womanliness as a Profession  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE question here discussed was one sure to arise, among us,
in America, sooner or later; and one, among the thoughtful, and
those who watch the signs of the future, also sure to arouse
interest of a special and peculiar kind. With the increasing
facilities for the higher intellectual development now offered to
the American woman, along with her sisters the world over—only in
greater degree, and more generally, to the American woman than to
any other—the effect which such development would have upon her
essential womanliness was bound to become a matter of anxious
observation. It is so become, in many quarters, now. People are
trying to find out how the "higher education" affects the women of
other countries, and seeking to compare the notes and suggestions
thus gathered up with what is to be seen here. Whether the higher
education shall be given the sex is no longer at all the affair
considered. It is conceded that the thing must be done; the
experiment is made; the point now is to observe what will come
next. For, certainly, unless we were very short-sighted, we were
prepared for the fact that something would come next. One subjects
nothing organic to a changed environment with any sane impression
that it will remain exactly as it was before the change. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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