The Age of Mother-power: The Position of Woman in Primitive Society

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Dodd, Mead, 1914 - 356 sider

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Side 184 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman and brought her unto the man. And Adam said this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
Side 156 - were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do. They also pitch our tents, make and mend our clothing, keep us warm at night; and, in fact, there is no such thing as travelling any considerable distance, or for any length of time, in this country, without their assistance.
Side 184 - And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone, I will make him an help meet for him.
Side 45 - Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Side 177 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Side 143 - The women in jahiliya, or some of them, had the right to dismiss their husbands, and the form of dismissal was this: if they lived in a tent, they turned it...
Side 170 - We have seen this, for instance, among the Khasis, where also goddesses are placed before gods. Mr. Hall further states : " It is certain that they [the women in Crete] must have lived on a footing of greater equality with men than in any other ancient civilisation." And again : " We see in the frescoes of Knossos conclusive indications of an open and free association of men and women, corresponding to our idea of ' Society,' at the Minoan court, unparalleled till our own day.
Side 176 - Let them marry to whom they think best : only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.
Side 66 - ... or as was often done, go and start a new matrimonial alliance in some other. The women were the great power among the clans, as everywhere else They did not hesitate, when occasion required, to 'knock off the horns...
Side 65 - The stores were in common; but woe to the luckless husband or lover who was too shiftless to do his share of the providing. No matter how many children or whatever goods he might have in the house, he might at any time be ordered to pick up his blanket and budge...

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