Why Women Are So #261677

These chapters are neither a defense nor an arraignment of womankind; they are, rather, a first-hand study of the ordinary, orthodox, middle class women who have constituted the domestic type for more than a century; the exotic great lady and the morbid woman with a grievance have alike been omitted. They try to answer the query: why are women so? Is the characteristic be havior which is called feminine an inalienable quality or merely an attitude of mind produced by the coercive social habits of past times?