Suggestions on the Best Mode of Promoting Civilization and Improvement; or, The Influence of Woman on a Social State, A Lecture delivered before the "Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement . January 24th, 1837

(Women) Young, Samuel

Published by From the Press of Hoffman and White, Albany, New York, 1837

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34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printing of a talk delivered by Young, a veteran New York state politician, on the importance to society at large of educating women, and decrying the treatment of women as inferiors throughout history: "Men alone are responsible for this omission. It is they, who, in every age, have arrogated to themselves, and have exercised both the moral and political power of the world, and also a control, more or less exclusive, and despotic, over all the avails of human industry . females have been subjected to laws and institutions grossly unequal, and manifestly unjust, and oppressive" (p. 13). Disbound. Inked stamp on the title (Mercantile Library New York). Provenance: presentation inscription from Robert Pruyn to L. Pruyn.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suggestions on the Best Mode of Promoting Civilization and Improvement; or, The Influence of Woman on a Social State, A Lecture delivered before the "Young Men's Association for Mutual Improvement . January 24th, 1837
• Publisher: From the Press of Hoffman and White, Albany, New York
• Publication Date: 1837
• Binding: 34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
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  • Social Thought