Sketches Of The Fair Sex


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(4.2 stars; 14 reviews)

Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.

It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate the FEMALE CHARACTER, to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects—than to attempt an accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master, viz—WOMAN. (Summary from the book) (6 hr 6 min)

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01 - IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES. THE FIRST WOMAN, AND HER ANTEDILUVIAN DESCENDANTS.… 16:38 Gelesen von Colman Shew
02 - GRECIAN WOMEN. GRECIAN COURTEZANS. 6:48 Gelesen von Lucy Perry
03 - ROMAN WOMEN. LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN. 13:53 Gelesen von swade
04 - WOMEN IN SAVAGE LIFE. EASTERN WOMEN. 12:55 Gelesen von Kalynda
05 - CHINESE WOMAN. AFRICAN WOMEN. 7:56 Gelesen von Bellona Times
06 - GREAT ENTERPRISES OF WOMEN IN THE TIMES OF CHIVALRY. OTHER PARTICULARS RES… 13:18 Gelesen von Bellona Times
07 - FRENCH WOMEN. ITALIAN WOMEN. 10:25 Gelesen von Chloe
08 - SPANISH WOMEN. ENGLISH WOMEN. RUSSIAN WOMEN. 12:22 Gelesen von swade
09 - THE IDEA OF FEMALE INFERIORITY. FEMALE SIMPLICITY. 17:33 Gelesen von TriciaG
10 - THE MILD MAGNANIMITY OF WOMEN. FEMALE DELICACY. INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SOCIET… 19:31 Gelesen von edbucks
11 - MONASTIC LIFE. DEGREES OF SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT AT DIFFERENT PERIODS. 16:36 Gelesen von edbucks
12 - GERMAN WOMEN. A VIEW OF MATRIMONY IN THREE DIFFERENT LIGHTS. BETROTHING AN… 13:59 Gelesen von Tim Ferreira
13 - FEMALE FRIENDSHIP. 6:18 Gelesen von Terry Goodyer
14 - ON THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND. 20:54 Gelesen von Bellona Times
15 - A LETTER TO A NEW MARRIED MAN. GARRICK'S ADVICE TO MARRIED LADIES. 9:31 Gelesen von TriciaG
16 - ORIGIN OF NUNNERIES. DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT CONVENT AT AJUDA IN RIO JANE… 9:11 Gelesen von Kalynda
17 - WEDDED LOVE IS INFINITELY PREFERABLE TO VARIETY. ITALIAN DEBAUCHERY. NAKED… 11:07 Gelesen von summerdaze
18 - WOMEN OF OTAHEITE. CRIM. CON. OF CLAUDIUS AND POMPEIA. A WORD TO A VERY NI… 9:35 Gelesen von summerdaze
19 - CUSTOM IN THE MOGHUL EMPIRE. CUSTOM OF THE MUSCOVITES. SALE OF CHILDREN TO… 15:59 Gelesen von TriciaG
20 - PUNISHMENT OF ADULTERY. ANECDOTE OF CÆSAR. POWER OF MARRYING. 8:03 Gelesen von Kalynda
21 - CELIBACY OF CLERGY. DESPERATE ACT OF EUTHIRA. 6:55 Gelesen von Randall Ryan
22 - LUXURIOUS DRESS OF GRECIAN LADIES. GRECIAN COURTSHIP. 6:06 Gelesen von Terry Goodyer
23 - POWER OF PHILTRES AND CHARMS. EASTERN COURTSHIP. LONG HAIR OF SAXONS AND D… 7:05 Gelesen von Nadine Eckert-Boulet
24 - ST. VALENTINE'S DAY. COURTS OF LOVE. IMMODESTY AT BABYLON. INDECENCY AT AD… 8:06 Gelesen von edbucks
25 - ANCIENT SWEDISH COURTSHIP. LAPLAND AND GREENLAND LADY. 5:38 Gelesen von Terry Goodyer
26 - EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN ASIA AND AFRICA. RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS OF THE GREEKS. … 12:07 Gelesen von Bellona Times
27 - ART OF DETERMINING THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY, THE HABITS, A… 19:44 Gelesen von Dirk Eichhorn
28 - THE IDEAL OF FEMALE BEAUTY; OR A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMOUS STATUE OF THE V… 16:48 Gelesen von Demi Fair
29 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 1) 16:17 Gelesen von edbucks
30 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 2) 15:25 Gelesen von edbucks

Bewertungen

Delightfully Old-Fashioned and Sexist


(4 stars)

This book was probably a compliment to women when written, but today parts of it will get even the least feminist woman a little piqued. If taken in good humour and as a specimen of its time, it's a delightful look through male eyes at that most inscrutable of creatures: woman.