America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
Quotes from the Book
Schopenhauer said only men had the total objectivity necessary for genius, and that you only had to look at a woman’s shape to see that she wasn’t intended for much mental or physical work.
Inside the (Domestic) Sphere women did things which weren't too demanding like childcare, scrubbing the floor, washing the sheets and curtains, sewing on buttons, and coalmining.
Women were more concerned about their skirts getting caught up in the wheels, and sat astride wearing Bloomers which turned them into Lesbians.
As Darwin said by keeping women at home their achievements were paltry compared to men's which proved women were biologically inferior. And he should know because he was a Genius. You probably learned about him at school.
Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.
When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.
Dr. Edward Clarke, a Harvard professor, said it was possible for a girl to study hard and do well in everything, but it would damage her health for the rest of her life, and her children would be shriveled.
In the Olden Days there were no women which is why you don't come across them in history lessons at school.
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About the book
Can women be geniuses? Or are their arms too short? Did we only learn about three women at school? What were all the others doing?
The Trouble With Women does for girls what 1066 and All That did for boys: it reminds us of what we were taught about women in history lessons at school, which is to say, not a lot. A brilliantly witty book of cartoons, it reveals some of our greatest thinkers' baffling theories about women. We learn that even Charles Darwin, long celebrated for his open, objective scientific mind, believed that women would never achieve anything important, because of their smaller brains.
Get ready to laugh, wince and rescue forgotten women from the 'dustbin of history', whilst keeping a close eye out for tell-tale "genius hair." You will never look at history in the same way again.
Book details
- First published
- 2016
- Author
- Jacky Fleming
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Goodreads rating
- 4.27 (5k ratings)
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