Publication

1977 - Penguin, Harmondsworth, United Kingdom

Language

English

Word Count

87,500 words, Guess

Page Count

350 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCHQ1121

Description

In this refreshing study of the role of women in our society, Elizabeth Janeway uses information from historians, sociologists, psychoanalysts and anthropologists. She finds that the idea of women as household drudges is barely three centuries old and, worse, confined largely to the middle class. She examines why society is so reluctant to abandon this notion, and finds the answer lies in a number of well-established social and psychological patterns.

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