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The monopoly of man / Anna Kuliscioff ; introduction by Jamila Mascat ; translated by Lorenzo Chiesa.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kuliscioff, Anna, 1857?-1925, author.
Contributor:
Mascat, Jamila M. H., writer of introduction.
Chiesa, Lorenzo, translator.
Series:
Insubordinations.
Insubordinations: Italian radical thought
Standardized Title:
Monopolio dell'uomo. English
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
Women--Social conditions.
Women.
Women--Economic conditions.
Women's rights.
Women in the professions.
Socialist feminism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
Summary:
"Never-before-translated, pioneering feminist manifesto that established the question of labor in women's struggle for emancipation"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The question of woman and other problems
The condition of woman throughout history
Woman in the struggle for existence
Woman in primitive peoples
Woman in the middle ages
Modern woman
Current causes that drive woman to work
Why I chose the question of woman's labor
Woman's moral parasitism
Repercussions on man
Economic independence as a precondition for civil and political rights
The privilege of modern man
Women factory workers
Woman's invasion of industries
The wages of women
Supposed causes of lower wages: demand and supply
Lower productivity
Lesser needs
The actual causes: division and deference
It is a complementary wage
The law of custom
Women teachers
The wages of women teachers
Saleswomen and retailers
Women professionals
Objections
Women physicians
Women lawyers
Women scholars
The mother
Hopes and vows.
Notes:
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
0-262-36359-3
0-262-36235-X
OCLC:
1202407480

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