Woman and Her Era. (2 vols.)
Farnham, Eliza W. Woman and Her Era. In two volumes. New York: Davis, 1864.
2 vols., 8vo.; cloth, stamped in gilt; a.e.g.; a tight copy.
First edition of Farnham’s discourse based on twenty-two years of observation and experience.
“In Woman and Her Era, Mrs. Farnham drew upon biology, art, literature, history, religion, and philosophy for a wide range of arguments. She glorified woman’s reproductive role as a creative power second only to that of God, and revealed a strong belief in the prenatal influence of the mother. … She contended that the deferential treatment accorded women in society, the modesty and delicacy expected of ladies, the horror with which female promiscuity was regarded, and the social disapprobation and wage discrimination suffered by gainfully employed women stemmed from a subconscious realization that he female sex has been created for a higher and more refined sphere of existence than the male. Man’s task was to make possible and to maintain a physical environment within which woman as mother and homemaker could work for the moral and spiritual elevation of the race” (NAW, Vol. 1, pp. 599-600).
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