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" We are the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food, the only animal species in which the sex relation is also an economic relation. "
The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic Society - Page 439
1899
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The Dial, Volumes 26-27

Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1899 - 960 pages
...released spring. And it is already happening. All we need to do is to understand and help " (p. 317). We are the only animal species in which the female...which the sex-relation is also an economic relation. Mrs. Stetson's book is written to offer a simple and natural explanation of this fact, to show its...
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Educated Working Women: Essays on the Economic Position of Women Workers in ...

Clara Elizabeth Collet - Business & Economics - 1902 - 158 pages
...Mrs. Stetson's book, " Women and Economics," may be briefly summed up as follows : — , (1) Man is the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food. (2) The married woman's living (ie, food, clothing, ornaments, amusements, luxuries) bears no relation...
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A History of Matrimonial Institutions Chiefly in England and the ..., Volume 3

George Elliott Howard - Families - 1904 - 472 pages
...of the most powerful books produced in recent sociological discussion. According to Mrs. Stetson - - we are the only animal species in which the female...sex-relation is also an economic relation. With us au entire sex livts in a relation of economic dependence upon the other sex." The wife may toil unceasingly;...
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Brimstone Bargains in the Marriage Market: Or, The Traffic in Sex, Stories ...

F. G. Tyrrell - Marriage - 1904 - 440 pages
...the present position of woman? Mrs. Stetson defines that position in unmistakable terms. She says: "We are the only animal species in which the female...male for food, the only animal species in which the sex relation is also an economic relation. With us an entire • sex lives in a relation of economic...
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Feminism, Its Fallacies and Follies

John Martin, Prestonia Mann Martin - Feminism - 1916 - 374 pages
...next attack him ! In one of the gospel books of Feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman deplores that " we are the only animal species in which the female...male for food, the only animal species in which the sex relation is also an economic relation;"5 which difference, she argues, puts woman a little lower...
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Unpopular Opinions: A Diary of Political Protest

Harold Owen - Great Britain - 1922 - 352 pages
...Feminists in Americai, Mrs. Oilman, hit upon what she regarded as a great biological truth. It was that "we are the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food !" and she solemnly instanced "the common cat" as upholding the banner of "economic independence,"...
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Social and Economic Standards of Living

Theresa Schmid McMahon - Cost and standard of living - 1925 - 440 pages
...attractive women can make themselves, the wider, in an economic sense, their range of selection becomes. "We are the only animal species in which the female...male for food, the only animal species in which the sex relation is also an economic relation. With us an entire sex lives in a relation of economic dependence...
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"Just a Housewife": The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America

Glenna Matthews - History - 1987 - 300 pages
...appeared in the November 1888 issue of The Forum as being central in the development of her own thought. "We are the only animal species in which the female...species in which the sex-relation is also an economic relation."51 In becoming economically dependent on man, woman then forfeited her ability to contribute...
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Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture ...

Kathryn Kish Sklar - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 460 pages
...women could gain greater participation in community life — provided their child care needs were met. "We are the only animal species in which the female...which the sex-relation is also an economic relation," Gilman argued. "With us an entire sex lives in a relation of economic dependence." This "sexuo-economic"...
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Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the ...

Gail Bederman - Social Science - 2008 - 322 pages
...economic dependence on men had made human beings evolve a most peculiar character. As Gilman put it, "We are the only animal species in which the female...species in which the sex-relation is also an economic relation."58 Gilman devoted her book to demonstrating how this "sexuo-economic" relation had distorted...
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