I feel more charity for a Mormon who has been taught from his birth that it is not only his right but his duty to God to enter int...o plural marriages, and that the man who has the greatest number of wives stands highest in God's favor, than I do for the man who has been taught from his cradle that the unpardonable sin is the desecration of womanhood; whose religious training and the moral code of civilization in which he is reared make it a crime to violate the Seventh Commandment and the established law of monogamy. Yet, judging from the testimony we see all about us--our ... lying-in and foundling hospitals and our fallen womanhood--the married or single man who lives a pure life is rare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is... woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that ... what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom ...is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, ... that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The textile and needlework arts of the world, primarily because they have been the work of women have been especially written out ...of art history. It is a male idea that to be "high" and "fine" both women and art should be beautiful, but not useful or functional.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Institutions of higher education in the United States are products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientatio...n toward achievement and objectivity are valued over cooperation, connectedness and subjectivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To become a token woman--whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters--is to become so...mething less than a man ... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.... Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job,... and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »