Woman and Labour
by Olive Schreiner
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Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), South African author and feminist, and friend of Havelock Ellis and Eleanor Marx, was one of the most important and challenging social commentators of her time. The ninth of twelve children, she lacked formal education and was taught by her mother. It was her 1883 novel Story of an African Farm that secured her reputation as an author and feminist, which her activities in England (1881-9) further consolidated. First published in 1911, this acclaimed feminist show more work, one of the most influential of the early twentieth century, established Schreiner's place in the Women's Movement. A reworking of an earlier manuscript destroyed during looting of her Johannesburg home by British soldiers, it considers how the role and position of women has been determined by the artificial constrictions of society. Schreiner ends the work with her vision of true equality between man and woman. This is the 1914 printing. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1911
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 301.412 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Social structure
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- HQ1381 .S43 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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