Gail Hamilton, the pen name of Mary Abigail Dodge, argues that women’s troubles come less from single injustices than from a whole vitiated atmosphere of custom, economic dependence and low expectation. In a run of pointed, often funny chapters she takes on marriage, housekeeping, work and the selfishness of men, and asks for air in which women can grow.
A spirited voice from the American women’s rights debates of the 1860s. Download the free EPUB.