Educating Women for Changing

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THE NEED FOR PERSPECTIVE
3
THE QUESTION OF SEX DIFFERENCES
23
SOCIAL CHANGE AND SEX CONFLICT
43
EDUCATION FOR EARNING
64
EDUCATION FOR DATING AND MATING
92
EDUCATION FOR HOMEMAKING
116
EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP
144
EDUCATION FOR POLITICS
165
EDUCATION FOR LEISURE
180
WOMENS EDUCATION AND EDUCATION IN GENERAL
210
PLANNING CURRICULUMS FOR WOMEN
233
CHOOSING A COLLEGE AND A CURRICULUM
255
NOTES
293
INDEX
299
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Página 133 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
Página 287 - If women are to occupy a place in this "free" world, they must know the nature of that world, and of themselves and their brothers, in order to be free in it. In such a concept there is no room to despise vocational training as it takes its appropriate place in the educational hierarchy. Its integration...
Página 103 - ... his bourgeois pattern of life. For most persons, the dominant motive of college attendance is the desire to rise to a higher social class; behind this we should see the ideology of American life and the projection of parents' ambitions upon children. The attainment of this life goal necessitates the postponement of marriage, since it is understood that a new household must be economically independent; additional complications sometimes arise from the practice of borrowing money for college expenses....
Página 250 - ... existence— the certainties of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have disintegrated or been destroyed and, at the same time, no new sanctions or justifications for the new routines we live, and must live, have taken hold.
Página 57 - The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation. And there is no reason to put much trust in the men when they rush to the defense of privileges whose full extent they can hardly measure. We shall not, then, permit ourselves to be intimidated by the number and violence of the attacks launched against women, nor to be entrapped by the self-seeking eulogies bestowed on the "true woman...
Página 115 - TURKISH MANNER. — Take eight ounces of rice, and wash them many times in water, steep them in some hot water, drain them, and put into a saucepan. Then swell the rice with some good gravy soup, taking care not to add too much. Divide the rice into two portions, taking...
Página 51 - It is a world that smells of soap. But it is a world of ambition as well, the constant striving for a better way of life— better furniture, bigger refrigerators, more books in the bookcase, more evenings at the movies. To the advertisers this is Americanism...
Página 43 - ... talk to yourself, in walking. Endeavor, besides being well dressed, to have a calm, good-natured countenance. A scowl always begets wrinkles. It is best not to smoke at all in public, but none but a ruffian in grain will inflict upon society the odor of a bad cigar, or that of any kind on ladies. Ladies are not allowed, upon ordinary occasions, to take the arm of any one but a relative or an accepted lover in the street and in the daytime...
Página 152 - ... the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women.
Página 44 - ... stiff, indolent, or sullenly silent, neither is perfect gravity always required, but if you jest let it be with quiet, gentlemanly wit, never depending , upon clownish gestures for the effect of a story. Nothing marks the gentleman so soon and so decidedly as quiet, refined ease of manner. 2. Never allow a lady to get a chair for herself? ring a bell, pick up a handkerchief or glove she may have dropped, or, in short, perform any service for herself which you can perform for her, when you are...

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