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Rudolf Cronau. Woman Triumphant
Woman Triumphant
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Women During the Remote Past
PRIMEVAL MAN, HIS ORIGIN AND SEVERE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE
THE DIVISION OF LABOR AND RESPONSIBILITIES BETWEEN THE SEXES
WOMEN AS OBJECTS OF RAPE, BARTER AND RELIGIOUS SACRIFICE
Women during the Ages of Antiquity
WOMEN IN BABYLONIA
WOMAN’S STATUS AMONG THE HEBREWS
WOMAN’S STATUS AMONG THE PARSEE AND HINDOO
WOMAN IN CHINA AND JAPAN
WOMAN AMONG THE EGYPTIANS
WOMAN AMONG THE GREEKS
WOMAN AMONG THE ROMANS
WOMAN’S POSITION AMONG THE GERMANIC NATIONS
THE HEROIC WOMEN OF THE BRITONS AND THE NORSEMEN
WOMAN AMONG THE EARLY CHRISTIANS
WOMAN AMONG THE MOHAMMEDANS
Women During the Middle Ages
WOMEN DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
THE GLORIOUS TIME OF THE RENAISSANCE
THE DARKEST CHAPTER IN WOMAN’S HISTORY
Women in Modern Times
WOMAN IN SLAVERY
THE DAWNING OF BRIGHTER DAYS
PIONEER WOMEN IN THE NEW WORLD
WOMEN OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
WOMAN’S ENTRY INTO INDUSTRY
THE MOVEMENT FOR AN EIGHT-HOUR DAY
EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK
THE MEANING OF THE MINIMUM WAGE
EFFORTS TO SECURE SAFE AND SANITARY WORKING CONDITIONS AND CLINICS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES RESULTING FROM INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS
WOMEN AS MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL
WOMAN IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
WOMAN IN THE PROFESSION OF THE LAW
WOMEN AS INVENTORS
EMINENT FEMALE SCIENTISTS
NOTEWORTHY WOMEN IN WORLD LITERATURE
WOMEN IN MUSIC AND DRAMA
WHAT WOMEN HAVE ACCOMPLISHED IN ART
GREAT MONUMENTS OF WOMAN’S PHILANTHROPY
THE HUNDRED YEARS’ BATTLE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE
WHY WOMEN WANT AND NEED THE VOTE
WOMAN’S ACTIVITY DURING THE WORLD WAR
I. WOMEN AND WAR. 1. Protest
2. Women’s Sufferings in War
II. ACTION TOWARDS PEACE. 3. The Peace Settlement
4. Continuous Mediation
III. PRINCIPLES OF A PERMANENT PEACE. 5. Respect for Nationality
6. Arbitration and Conciliation
7. International Pressure
8. Democratic Control of Foreign Policy
9. The Enfranchisement of Women
IV. INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION. 10. Third Hague Conference
11. International Organization
12. General Disarmament
13. Commerce and Investments
14. National Foreign Policy
15. Women in National and International Politics
V. THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
VI. WOMEN AND THE PEACE SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE
VII. ACTION TO BE TAKEN. 19. Women’s Voice in the Peace Settlement
20. Envoys to the Governments
WOMAN TRIUMPHANT
WOMAN’S MISSION IN THE FUTURE
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Rudolf Cronau
The story of her struggles for freedom, education and political rights
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The same is true in regard to the dolls and play-things with which women seek to amuse those little ones, dearest to their hearts. What motherly affection, ever present and everlasting, has done for the welfare and progress of mankind, no one can conceive, nor describe, nor illustrate.
As brief as these remarks about aboriginal woman’s activity are, they indicate, however, sufficiently her share in the founding and evolution of human culture. To appreciate this even more, we must not forget that the life of those women was one of constant care, misery and danger. The blissful happiness of aboriginal existence, of which we read sometimes in novels, written by poetical dreamers, was never enjoyed by these women. How full of hardships their share was in reality, we find by investigating their place in the social life of their tribes.
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