Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #279567 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

The out-laws of the world
This unfinished story is the product of a fierce feminist and a profound socially-minded author.

It is a biting aggressive work: 'Was not the world a vast prison and women born slaves?'. 'Women, the out-laws of the world'. 'Born a woman - and born to suffer ... I feel more acutely the various ills my sex are fated to bear. I feel that the evils they are subject to endure, degrade them so far below their oppressors, as almost to justify their tyranny.'

One of the author's targets is marriage, 'matrimonial despotism of heart and conduct'.
'But a wife being as much a man's property as his horse, or his ass, she has nothing she can call her own.'
Marriage laws are absurd 'leading to the most insufferable bondage and to a false morality ... which makes that all the virtue of woman consist in chastity, submission, and the forgiveness of injuries'.

Another scandal for the author is 'the enslaved state of the labouring majority ... condemned to labour, like a machine, only to earn bread, and scarcely that'; and 'the evils which arise in society from the despotism of rank and riches.'

This hard hitting story is an outcry for greater freedom (also sexual) for women and for social justice.
It didn't loose its important message and is still very actual in a major part of the world.

Highly recommended.