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Ellen Key. The Woman Movement
The Woman Movement
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE EXTERNAL RESULTS OF THE WOMAN MOVEMENT
CHAPTER II. THE INNER RESULTS OF THE WOMAN MOVEMENT
CHAPTER III. THE INFLUENCE OF THE WOMAN QUESTION UPON SINGLE WOMEN
CHAPTER IV. THE INFLUENCE OF THE WOMAN MOVEMENT UPON THE DAUGHTERS
CHAPTER V. THE INFLUENCE OF THE WOMAN MOVEMENT UPON MEN AND WOMEN IN GENERAL
CHAPTER VI. THE INFLUENCE OF THE WOMAN MOVEMENT UPON MARRIAGE
CHAPTER VII. THE INFLUENCE OF THE WOMAN MOVEMENT UPON MOTHERHOOD
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Ellen Key
Published by Good Press, 2021
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As matron of the household, woman retained her authority. The rational, common-sense marriage was the one most conformable to this literal doctrine of Luther, and the most usual. To the man who had chosen her, the wife bore children by the dozen and threescore. The Church gave her soul nourishment. If a woman occasionally sought to exercise her spiritual gifts in a “worldly” direction, she needed powerful protection, else she ran the danger of being burned as a witch!
That women in time of persecution adhered to the new doctrine with warm belief and suffered for it with the whole strength of their souls, that in time of war they managed house and estate with power and understanding, altered in no respect, at the time, woman’s social or marriage position. Man was woman’s sovereign master and therefore a good bit nearer God than she. In marriage woman was considered, according to the bishop’s word, “man’s chattel,” outside of marriage as a tool of the devil. But however deeply the soul of woman was oppressed at this time, yet it still lived and endowed sons, in whom the strong but unexercised endowments of the mother became genius; it endowed daughters, who secretly procured sustenance for their souls and who in turn transmitted their rebellious spirit to a daughter or granddaughter.
