Reviews for Ghana A Spy Guide

The average rating for Ghana A Spy Guide based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-03-03 00:00:00 Michael Smith Since this is a work of non-fiction, this book is a little dry but comprehensive of woman's financial dependency in the 19th century. It shows that society focuses more on getting women married than helping them grow as individuals and monetizing their work. Perkins Gilman presents solid arguments for more female economic autonomy, but she talks maily about middle/upper class women. Also, ther is a smidgen of racism in here. It's an important work even with all it's flaws and it's still relevant today.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-25 00:00:00 Marissa Euell At the time of its publication, the London Chronicle had this to say about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Women and Economics: "Since John Stuart Mill's essay there has been no book dealing with the whole position of women to approach it in originality of conception and brilliancy of exposition." Published in 1898, this is a public domain book, although not transcribed by Project Gutenberg as yet. I found copies here: University of Pennsylvania "A Celebration of Women Writers" Project - entire text on one webpage; it appears to be intact but I've only proofread a small portion University of California Press E-Books Collection - entire text divided into framed web pages by chapter; it appears to be intact but I've only proofread a small portion American Libraries Internet Archive - many ebook formats of a Google scan of the book that appears to be converted to text by software; it contains numerous artifacts and errors making it sometimes difficult to read Review to come, when I read it, probably 2016...