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Vol. I. August 1, 1858. No. 6.
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The
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ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL .
PUBLISHED _MONTHLYo
Vol. I. August 1, 1858. No. 6.
Vol . I . _August 1 , 1858 . No . 6 .
Mil.—The Disputed Question. ^ _ _ . -*
Mil . —THE DISPUTED _QUESTION . _^ _ _ . - _*
, "With An Increasing 1 Majority Of Abov...
, "With an increasing majority of above half a million of the one sex over the otherand many thousands of the single and widowed
unemployed , it is still , a disputed question whether women should work , either with head or hands , except in domestic life . They are
existences of being , rather than doing , of " beauty not use , " sing the poets . Social economists rather lament their employment
otherwise than in the household as a temporary exigency , than admit it as a practical axiom , while philanthropists are of opinion
that our superfluous numbers , to avoid starvation , must emigrate , or become the recipients of charity at home—nothing else being
left for them . Meantime , what do women themselves say , or do about the
matter ? Not much . Though as they suffer , they necessarily comlainand make attempts to do a little also ; such attempts being
p often , discouraged , or at the best pitied , as against that law of nature which prohibits women from working ; a law , as we are
told , for ages tested and confirmed by their having performed no worknor evinced disposition to perform it . Unhappily , we rest
satisfied , with half truths here . The fact that women as well as men . require exercise of mind and body , in order to enjoy good
health and sanity , should be enough to enlighten us . But when it is apparent that wpmenfrom the earliest timeshave waged a sort
of contention against their , position , and that up , to this hour , they are covertly regarded as a somewhat puzzling' creation of the Deity ,
we may surely doubt- in _otir advanced nineteenth century , whether the old idea of their inherent inability , however hallowed by time ,
or however popular , is really consistent with truth . As yet , only the few are interested in asking " whether the race
would derive advantage from the development of the higher faculties of womenas well as from a physical strengthening of their
, weakness ?" . The many deem such enquiries visionary , because to them the subject is unknown or it is neglectedwhen not despised .
For we are sorry to add , attempts at its discussion , , though involving equally some of the highest interests , not alone of one sex , but
of necessity of both , are still sneering'ly met with such terms as " Emancipation" " Americanism , " "Eights , " and the like . Yet
, it may be that women have no particular cause to complain , since
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/1/
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