 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 σελίδες
...useful," woman must have full protection of the law and must avoid total dependence on her husband, "for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free?" (216—17). Family duties, including motherhood, do not constitute a reason for denying women liberty;... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - 396 σελίδες
...laws; she must not be dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death - for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own?5 or, virtuous, who is not free? The wife, in the present state of things, who is faithful to her... | |
 | Maria J. Falco - 2010 - 250 σελίδες
...laws; she must not be dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death — for how can a being be generous...nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free?" (RW 216-17). JJR: "If I were sovereign, I would permit sewing and the needle trades only to women and... | |
 | Barbara Caine - 1997 - 358 σελίδες
...laws; she must not be dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death — for how can a being be generous...nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free? In order to render women's 'private virtue a public benefit', Wollstonecraft argued, women needed 'a... | |
 | Linda K. Kerber - 2017 - 356 σελίδες
...stressed women's native capability and competence and offered these as preconditions of citizenship. "How can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous who is not free?" asked Wollstonecraft. Murray offered model women who sustained themselves by their own efforts, including... | |
 | S. L. Sharma, T. K. Oommen - 2000 - 252 σελίδες
...laws; she must not depend upon her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death; for how can a being be generous who...nothing of its own/ or virtuous who is not free...? Structurally the family and the community mediates between the 'individual woman' and the state. An... | |
 | Susan Branson - 2001 - 230 σελίδες
...laws; she must not be dependant on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death — for how can a being be generous...who has nothing of its own? Or virtuous, who is not free?"54 She even went so far as to suggest that women obtain political rights, although she was aware... | |
 | Harriet Devine Jump - 2003 - 442 σελίδες
...laws; she must not be dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death — for how can a being be generous...own? or virtuous, who is not free? The wife, in the present state of things, who is faithful to her husband, and neither suckles nor educates her children,... | |
 | Barbara Taylor - 2003 - 356 σελίδες
...woman 'must not be dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his death' - for 'how can a being be generous...who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free?'77 Women's economic dependence underpins men's arbitrary rule; even more damagingly, it disallows... | |
 | 1792 - 656 σελίδες
...; me muft not be dependent on her hufband's bounty for her fubfiftence during his life, or fupport after his death — for how can a being be generous...? The wife, in the prefent ftate of things, who is faithful to her hufband, and neither fuckles nor educates her children, fcarcely deierves the name... | |
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But to render her really virtuous and useful, she must not, if she discharge her civil duties, want individually the protection of civil laws; she must not be dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life, or support after his... 
