Sketches Of The Fair Sex


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(4.2 stars; 14 reviews)

Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.

It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate the FEMALE CHARACTER, to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects—than to attempt an accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master, viz—WOMAN. (Summary from the book) (6 hr 6 min)

Chapitres

01 - IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES. THE FIRST WOMAN, AND HER ANTEDILUVIAN DESCENDANTS.… 16:38 Lu par Colman Shew
02 - GRECIAN WOMEN. GRECIAN COURTEZANS. 6:48 Lu par Lucy Perry
03 - ROMAN WOMEN. LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN. 13:53 Lu par swade
04 - WOMEN IN SAVAGE LIFE. EASTERN WOMEN. 12:55 Lu par Kalynda
05 - CHINESE WOMAN. AFRICAN WOMEN. 7:56 Lu par Bellona Times
06 - GREAT ENTERPRISES OF WOMEN IN THE TIMES OF CHIVALRY. OTHER PARTICULARS RES… 13:18 Lu par Bellona Times
07 - FRENCH WOMEN. ITALIAN WOMEN. 10:25 Lu par Chloe
08 - SPANISH WOMEN. ENGLISH WOMEN. RUSSIAN WOMEN. 12:22 Lu par swade
09 - THE IDEA OF FEMALE INFERIORITY. FEMALE SIMPLICITY. 17:33 Lu par TriciaG
10 - THE MILD MAGNANIMITY OF WOMEN. FEMALE DELICACY. INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SOCIET… 19:31 Lu par edbucks
11 - MONASTIC LIFE. DEGREES OF SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT AT DIFFERENT PERIODS. 16:36 Lu par edbucks
12 - GERMAN WOMEN. A VIEW OF MATRIMONY IN THREE DIFFERENT LIGHTS. BETROTHING AN… 13:59 Lu par Tim Ferreira
13 - FEMALE FRIENDSHIP. 6:18 Lu par Terry Goodyer
14 - ON THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND. 20:54 Lu par Bellona Times
15 - A LETTER TO A NEW MARRIED MAN. GARRICK'S ADVICE TO MARRIED LADIES. 9:31 Lu par TriciaG
16 - ORIGIN OF NUNNERIES. DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT CONVENT AT AJUDA IN RIO JANE… 9:11 Lu par Kalynda
17 - WEDDED LOVE IS INFINITELY PREFERABLE TO VARIETY. ITALIAN DEBAUCHERY. NAKED… 11:07 Lu par summerdaze
18 - WOMEN OF OTAHEITE. CRIM. CON. OF CLAUDIUS AND POMPEIA. A WORD TO A VERY NI… 9:35 Lu par summerdaze
19 - CUSTOM IN THE MOGHUL EMPIRE. CUSTOM OF THE MUSCOVITES. SALE OF CHILDREN TO… 15:59 Lu par TriciaG
20 - PUNISHMENT OF ADULTERY. ANECDOTE OF CÆSAR. POWER OF MARRYING. 8:03 Lu par Kalynda
21 - CELIBACY OF CLERGY. DESPERATE ACT OF EUTHIRA. 6:55 Lu par Randall Ryan
22 - LUXURIOUS DRESS OF GRECIAN LADIES. GRECIAN COURTSHIP. 6:06 Lu par Terry Goodyer
23 - POWER OF PHILTRES AND CHARMS. EASTERN COURTSHIP. LONG HAIR OF SAXONS AND D… 7:05 Lu par Nadine Eckert-Boulet
24 - ST. VALENTINE'S DAY. COURTS OF LOVE. IMMODESTY AT BABYLON. INDECENCY AT AD… 8:06 Lu par edbucks
25 - ANCIENT SWEDISH COURTSHIP. LAPLAND AND GREENLAND LADY. 5:38 Lu par Terry Goodyer
26 - EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN ASIA AND AFRICA. RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS OF THE GREEKS. … 12:07 Lu par Bellona Times
27 - ART OF DETERMINING THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY, THE HABITS, A… 19:44 Lu par Dirk Eichhorn
28 - THE IDEAL OF FEMALE BEAUTY; OR A DESCRIPTION OF THE FAMOUS STATUE OF THE V… 16:48 Lu par Demi Fair
29 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 1) 16:17 Lu par edbucks
30 - AN ESSAY ON MATRIMONY (Part 2) 15:25 Lu par edbucks

Critiques

Delightfully Old-Fashioned and Sexist


(4 stars)

This book was probably a compliment to women when written, but today parts of it will get even the least feminist woman a little piqued. If taken in good humour and as a specimen of its time, it's a delightful look through male eyes at that most inscrutable of creatures: woman.