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  • Sketches of the history, genius, disposition, accomplishments, employments, customs, virtues, and vices, of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. Interspersed with many singular and entertaining anecdotes. By a friend to the sex ... [One line from Otway]
Call No:
  • Mass.
    • Imprint 1807 No.1 Boston
Summary note:
  • The author, defining himself as a "friend to the sex," writes about the position and accomplishments of women in different societies throughout history, and reveals a great deal about his attitudes towards women in the late 18th century. He offers a world wide and historical survey of the history of women and writes his opinions: " ... in strength of mind as well as body, men are greatly superior to women ..." Adams warns against educating women to the possibilities of their imagination and passion and anything that would cause them to "regret the situation which Providence has assigned them..."
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • Boston:
Publisher/Printer:
  • Printed for Joseph Bumstead (printer and bookseller) sold by him at no. 20, Union-street, and by booksellers in various parts of the United States,
Imprint Date:
  • 1807.
Physical Description:
  • 296 p.
  • 18.5 cm.
Notes:
  • Shaw & Shoemaker 11933.
    • First published in London in 1790, originally published in the US in 1797. Attributed to John Adams (not the U.S. president).
  • The author, defining himself as a "friend to the sex," writes about the position and accomplishments of women in different societies throughout history, and reveals a great deal about his attitudes towards women in the late 18th century. He offers a world wide and historical survey of the history of women and writes his opinions: " ... in strength of mind as well as body, men are greatly superior to women ..." Adams warns against educating women to the possibilities of their imagination and passion and anything that would cause them to "regret the situation which Providence has assigned them..."
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