The Project Gutenberg EBook of Woman in Modern Society, by Earl Barnes

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Woman in Modern Society

Author: Earl Barnes

Release Date: April 23, 2005 [EBook #15691]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOMAN IN MODERN SOCIETY ***

Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

WOMAN IN MODERN SOCIETY

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR:_

STUDIES IN EDUCATION
(IN TWO VOLUMES)

WHERE KNOWLEDGE FAILS

WOMAN
IN MODERN SOCIETY

BY

EARL BARNES

AT ONE TIME PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN HISTORY IN THE STATE
UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA, AND LATER PROFESSOR
OF EDUCATION IN LELAND STANFORD
JUNIOR UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK
B.W. HUEBSCH

COPYRIGHT, 1912
BY B.W. HUEBSCH
PRINTED IN U.S.A.

This volume is dedicated to a woman endowed by her ancestors with
health and strength, reared by a wise mother, trained to earn her own
living, and university bred, at one time an independent wage-earner and
now equal partner in the business of a home, a social force in the life
of her community, member of a woman's club, a suffragist, the devoted
and intelligent mother of a group of fine children, and the center of a
family which loves and reverences her and finds the deepest meaning of
life in her presence.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A WOMAN 9
II. WOMAN'S HERITAGE 31
III. WOMEN IN EDUCATION 57
IV. THE FEMINIZING OF CULTURE 85
V. THE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE OF WOMEN 107
VI. WOMEN IN INDUSTRY 123
VII. THE MEANING OF POLITICAL LIFE 150
VIII. WOMAN'S RELATION TO POLITICAL LIFE 173
IX. THE MODERN FAMILY 207
X. FAMILY LIFE AS A VOCATION 231
XI. CONCLUSION 251

WOMAN IN MODERN SOCIETY

I

What it Means to be a Woman

If we go back to the earliest forms of life, where the unit is simply a
minute mass of protoplasm surrounded