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- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- From “Woman versus Indian” (1892)
- From “The Economic Parasitism of Women” (1902)
- From “Geographical Research as a Field for Women” (1916)
- From “Women’s Work for Peace” (1922)
- From Three Guineas (1938)
- From American Argument (1949)
- From The Second Sex (1949)
- From “Femmes africaines/African Women” (1951)
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Vernon Lee
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Emily Greene Balch
- Virginia Woolf
- Pearl S. Buck and Eslanda Robeson
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Jeanne Vialle
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Emily Greene Balch
from 9 - Men, Women, and Gender
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- From “Woman versus Indian” (1892)
- From “The Economic Parasitism of Women” (1902)
- From “Geographical Research as a Field for Women” (1916)
- From “Women’s Work for Peace” (1922)
- From Three Guineas (1938)
- From American Argument (1949)
- From The Second Sex (1949)
- From “Femmes africaines/African Women” (1951)
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Vernon Lee
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Emily Greene Balch
- Virginia Woolf
- Pearl S. Buck and Eslanda Robeson
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Jeanne Vialle
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
Women have the same emotions as men and with them are inflamed by nationalism, intoxicated by the glories of war, embittered by old rancors. But as we look through history we realize that in the mass they have taken little part in the political life of their peoples and have been mainly immersed in private affairs, in the household and in personal relations. Psychologically they have a less powerful instinctive pugnacity than men; and furthermore, in war they have always stood to lose even more than men, as Europe knew. In-place of the excitement of the great adventure they had the heavy hours of suspense and bereavement; dishonor and slavery were a worse lot than wounds or death itself.
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 493 - 496Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022