Reviews for Sex typing and social roles

The average rating for Sex typing and social roles based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-09 00:00:00 Joe Donoghue “Is there any thing better in a State than that both women and men be rendered the very best? There is not."—Plato. It is idle to say that what is right for man is wrong for woman. Pure reason, abstract right and wrong, have nothing to do with sex: they neither recognize nor know it. They teach that what is right or wrong for man is equally right and wrong for woman. Both sexes are bound by the same code of morals; both are amenable to the same divine law. Both have a right to do the best they can; or, to speak more justly, both should feel the duty, and have the opportunity, to do their best. Each must justify its existence by becoming a complete development of manhood and womanhood; and each should refuse whatever limits or dwarfs that development. The problem of woman's sphere, to use the modern phrase, is not to be solved by applying to it abstract principles of right and wrong. Its solution must be obtained from physiology, not from ethics or metaphysics. The question must be submitted to Agassiz and Huxley, not to Kant or Calvin,

Review # 2 was written on 2011-09-03 00:00:00 Deb Kinderman John Ruskin helped form my view of book collecting. Per his advice, I built a sufficient library where each book has earned its rightful place, regardless of birth. For it was Ruskin who suggested to obtain...a serviceable and steadily increasing series of books through life; every volume having its assigned place, like a little statue in its niche. Modern readers who happen upon this collection of Ruskin's lectures on Man, Woman, Books, Work, and Nature, seem to focus on their current feelings and political environment. Balderdash. Accept his ruminations as a product of his time, just as our mush will be thus reviewed in the next decades. Let heartsickness pass beyond a certain bitter point, and the heart loses its life forever. His sentences have been described as spears or daggers, as they hit the main point and then move on. These lectures, first delivered in the 1860s, hit upon social philosophy, which veers between the age-old thorn of employer/employee, And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, - Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay? to Man's debt to Woman: ...no man has ever lived a right life who had not been chastened by a woman's love, strengthened by her courage, and guided by her discretion. Like Hemingway's lions lolling on the shore, my Ruskin is king over his printed dominion, now happily retired to the highest shelf, reserved for the Printed Elders of 100+ years. Self-help never looked so good. Now, therefore, see that no day passes in which you do not make yourself a somewhat better creature. Book Season = Spring (vanity not excited)