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Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain, 1900-1939.Diana Gittins

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsFair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain, 1900-1939. Diana Gittins Thomas K. BurchThomas K. Burch Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 89, Number 5Mar., 1984 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/228003 Views: 3Total views on this site Copyright 1984 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain, 1900-39

Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain, 1900-39

Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain, 1900-1939.

Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain, 1900-1939.

Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure, 1900-39.

Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure, 1900-39.

Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure, 1900-39.

Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure, 1900-39.

Diana Gittins. Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure in Britain 1900-39. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1982. Pp. 240. $27.50.

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Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure 1900-1939

Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure 1900-1939

Book Review: Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure 1900–1939

Book Review: Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure 1900–1939

Issues in and Patterns of Women's Participation in Sports in Nigeria

In this article an attempt has been made to discuss some of the problems against women's involvement in sports in Nigeria. Reference is made to the Nigerian traditional culture which regarded women as the fair and weaker sex who should not participate in any vigorous physical activity. In the past, society frowned at women taking part in such activities like wrestling, shooting with bows and arrows, horse-back riding and hunting. The assumption of the people was that women's involvement in those traditional sports could make them de velop heavy muscles and loss their feminine appearance. The article highlighted some misconceptions regarding the physiological effects of women's participation in sports on the menstrual cycle and child bearing ability. The fear of society about this was a great deterrent to women's participation in sports. Also the psychological effects of the influence of parents' opinion on their daughters participating in sports are mentioned. The discussion on the current trends in women's participation in sports empha sised the equal opportunity which the Nigerian women now enjoy with man in sports. This social change is attributed to the impact of cultural contact between the Western world and Nigeria through formal education. With the present change of attitude toward women in sports, the Nigerian women have made a breakthrough in the arena of sports at national and international levels. The article gives a brief account of the performances and achievements of the Nigerian women in sports at the institutional and community levels and also at some inter national sports competitions such as the Commonwealth and the Olympic Games.

Of Punctilios Among the Fair Sex: Colonial American Magazines, 1741–1776

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsHazel GarciaHazel Garcia is an instructor in the School of Journalism, University of Iowa, and a doctoral candidate at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Science and the fair sex

Science and the fair sex

The Cult of Womanhood in Eighteenth-Century Thought

IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE and letters there occurred a dramatic change in the image of woman and in associated ideas on marriage and the family. The misogyny which had characterized traditional satire and philosophical thought the ancient Greeks through the seventeenth century was replaced by the eighteenthcentury version of the Cult of True Womanhood. Beginning near the end of the seventeenth century, as increasing references to the Fair Sex indicate, this new style slided, as Mary Wollstonecraft noted one hundred years later, from essays into novels, and novels into familiar letters and conversation.' Praise of woman and her role was a well established literary convention in pre-Victorian society. Chaucer's Wife of Bath incorrectly blamed the medieval clergy for literary misogyny, but its roots go further back to antiquity, as Martin Luther recognized when he found it necessary to give a Christian defense of marriage against its pagan detractors.2 The Wife of Bath's fifth husband knew better than she and attempted to chastise her by reading the pagan Theophrastus, whose remarks had been faithfully reproduced by St. Jerome and later by John of Salisbury.3 Like the Christians after them, the Greek and Roman philosophers had an ideal of other-worldly, spiritual commitment, a dedication to the pursuit of wisdom or truth, and, as Theophrastus noted, one can serve two masters, wisdom and wife (p. 356). Marriage was second best, symbolizing one's earthly existence and its unavoidable burdens. Practically, the alternatives were bleak: no housekeeper, no nurse in one's old age, and no heirs.

FALSE FLUTTER

<h3>To the Editor:</h3> I wish to draw attention to a hazard of false eyelashes which I have recently encountered in several members of the fair sex thus adorned. Apparent progression of glaucomatous visual field defect in the superior field may be demonstrated when the patient is wearing the false eyelashes at the time of examination. Removal of the artifice eliminates the exaggerated field loss (and possibly a false indication for more serious surgical intervention). <h3>Editor's Note:</h3> Dr. Harrison has added one more cosmetic device to the list of those having unexpected side effects. In this case the effect is not only to the side but above. Apart from visual field testing, one may speculate on the dangers of effective reduction of the superior field when false lashes are resumed after the test. The disappearance of the portcullis has eliminated the danger of impalement from above, and most wearers of

The Fair Sex in Greek Society

History holds a mirror up to life. Therein are reflected the varying patterns and tendencies of human existence in times past. But past and present constitute a continuum, in which the various phases of the lifecycle succeed each other, and a whole repeats the whole, Besame, or nearly so, as Thucydides declared. With respect to the woman question, Greek society ran through a wide range of experience: we can see her in rather primitive feudal society, bought and sold, or given away like so much property; on the plane of greater equality, but not too high, in the limited communism of Sparta; in sheltered, almost Oriental seclusion in the best families from age-old subjugation, though that day was soon overcast and not till later ages more its promises in some degree redeemed. Either yet, fulfillment is not complete in the most advanced sectors; and in others retrogression has set in. Tool world divided between protagonists of women's equality and those who would rehabilitate her in her one time exclusive sphere, a re-examination of the panorama of Greek development is of interest.

Early English Periodicals for Ladies (1700–1760)

During the last decade of the seventeenth century the rapidly increasing influence of female readers found public acknowledgment in many of the projects of John Dunton, London book-seller and publisher. To the Fair Sex he dedicated in 1691 and 1692, first monthly, then fortnightly, and finally weekly numbers of his Athenian Mercury; to them he made special appeal when sales were slow; and to them he presented, in 1693, a short-lived and most unedifying Ladies' Mercury, a publication that may fairly be called the first English periodical for women.

Fair Play for the Fair Sex

Fair Play for the Fair Sex

Comedians of the Chinese Stage

THE Occidental, in order to appreciate why a Chinese audience can both hate and laugh at a comedian, must forget all the theatres he has seen. He must wipe clean the slate of his memory, as it were, and leave it blank for a new picture. Before touching on the Chinese comedian in particular, it may be interesting to consider more in general an old-style playhouse. A visit to the Kuangho Lou in Peking, which is connected with a theatrical training school for boys, will itself vividly show how vast is the difference between the theatres of China and the West. You enter without an adriission ticket. An attendant, garrulous and annoyingly solicitous, shows you to a seat, which he sells to you. He expects for the favor a tip. But the seat is unlike any you have seen. It is a bench, backless and narrow and hard. It runs at right angles to the stage, proof that conservative Chinese go to hear a play rather than to see it. A long table in front of your bench is crowded with teapots, cups, melon seeds, sweetmeats, and pipes with cunningly wrought bowls of jadeite or ivory. Balconies above emphasize the squareness of the building. In other theatres women may sit in specially designated parts of the house, but here the fair sex is denied entrance. The platform stage projects into the audience and is surrounded on three sides by spectators. The structure, a living counterpart of that of Shakespeare's day, has at its outer corners two columns, shining with black lacquer and bright with gilt ideographs. These support a roof. If a scene is on, there will be ear-splitting sounds of brass orchestration that have no counterpart anywhere else today; one must go back to the noise of Shakespeare or the din of battle of the Bible to seek a likeness. On such a stage before a sea of jet-black hair, relieved by

Chloroform Delusions

A surgeon's assistant, named George Howard, was tried at the Midland Circuit on Nov. 9th, for rape on a Mrs. Child, to whom he had administered chloroform for the purpose of taking out a tooth. Mrs. Child seems only to have been put partially under the influence of the anæsthetic, and was stupid and speechless afterwards for a time. She affirmed that it was while in this state, being quite conscious, but having no power of motion, that the crime was committed. This was proved to have been merely a delusion on her part, no doubt due to perverted sensations and sexual excitation during partial anaesthesia, the delusion persisting afterwards. Dr. Richardson said that he had known persons in the second stage of chloroform inhalations subject to delusions as to what had taken place under the influence of chloroform. He mentioned one case, in which a lady had had an exactly similar delusion to that of Mrs. Child, although her father and several other persons were present when Dr. Richardson had administered the chloroform, and persisted in her belief long after the influence of the anaesthetic had passed off. Mr. Mills said that patients of the fair sex frequently had delusions of an erotic nature under such circumstances.

Receipt for making one of the fair sex

Receipt for making one of the fair sex