Word: woman
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...life of the man of Southern France is a happy medium between the lazy, and therefore melancholy existence of the Spaniard, and the strenuous, rugged life of the Northerner. In this southern society where man is more easy-going and gallant than hardworking, nearly all responsibility falls on woman. Always pious and valiant, she bears on her shoulders all the duties of the home, and has won for herself the affection and admiration of all Frenchmen...
...most characteristic difference between the social life of the North and the South of France is the difference position of woman in the two parts. In the Germanic and Norman Northern sections, she occupies a higher place, and the home is in a more moral atmosphere than in the South. After the revolution, the farmer desired his wife and daughters to be the intellectual equals of the noble women, and in this way the classes became much intermixed...
Flaubert, in what is perhaps his best known novel, "Madame Bovary" studies the problems arising in the second half of the nineteenth century from this mingling of classes. His conclusion is that the effects of too rapid culture on the middle class French woman are pernicious. In this M. Le Roux agrees with him; for, with an ancient race, every-day education must always precede instruction in less tangible matters. Flaubert treats the subject firmly but reverently; his host of imitators, however, have cheapened his art, lost the depth and retained only the sentimental and superficial...
Atlantic Monthly: "The Passage," by G. C. Lodge '95; "What is the Real Emancipation of Woman?" by W. M. Salter...
...modern development of democracy; accordingly the problems, the possibilities and the dangers which present themselves to the members of a democracy are treated by him in the specific forms which they assume for American citizens. Among the topics which are specially discussed are the Indian question, the negro question, woman suffrage, machine politics and the recent territorial extension of power. The treatment of all these subjects is rendered more interesting, convincing and helpful by Dr. Abbott's characteristic optimism and breadth of view and by the way in which he sees the divine principle in every day things...