The foremother of home economics, Catharine Beecher did much to change assumptions about the place of women in American society. She was also a very considerable philosopher and social theorist. These volumes, dating back to 1831, encompass her writings on the subjects of moral philosophy, common sense and religion, cause and effect, the role of women at home and in the workplace, and her anti-suffrage position.
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The foremother of home economics, Catharine Beecher did much to change assumptions about the place of women in American society. She was also a very considerable philosopher and social theorist. These volumes, dating back to 1831, encompass her writings on the subjects of moral philosophy, common sense and religion, cause and effect, the role of women at home and in the workplace, and her anti-suffrage position.
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As New. No Jacket. (TABLE)Still in the publisher's packaging, 6 volumes, a heavy set that may require additional postage for destinations outside of the USA. List price Amazon-$1200.00. The foremother of home economics, Catharine Beecher did much to change assumptions about the place of women in American society. She was also a very considerable philosopher and social theorist. These volumes, dating back to 1831, encompass her writings on the subjects of moral philosophy, common sense and religion, cause and effect, the role of women at home and in the workplace, and her anti-suffrage position." (Publisher)
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Like New. Size: 6x7x8; All six volumes uniformly bound in the publisher's original green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to upper covers and along each spine. Bindings and contents in clean, near fine condition with no snags, no dents and no pen-marks. Also, not from a library so no stamps or labels. Reprints works previously published between 1831 and 1872. A nice, nearly new set, edited and introduced by Therese B. Dykeman and Dorothy G. Rogers.
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Like New. 2002. Facsimile edition. Hardcover. Library Binding. 8vo. Book is As New. Reprinted from various editions. Vols 1-3: Moral and Religious Works. Vol 1 (484pp): Introduction by Therese B. Dykeman with Dorothy G. Rogers. Chronology. Elements of Mental and Moral Philosophy, founded upon Experience, Reason and the Bible (1831). Vol 2 (392pp): Letters on the Difficulties of Religion (1836). 'An Essay on Cause and Effect in connection with the Difference of Fatalism and Free Will, ' Biblical Repository 2.4 (October 1839): 381-408. To those Commencing a Religious Life (1840). Vol 3 (360pp): Common Sense Applied to Religion; or, The Bible and the People (1857). Vols 4-6: The Role and Rights of Women. Vol 4 (232pp)The Duty of American Women to their Country (1845). The Evils suffered by American Women and American Children: the Causes and the Remedy (1846; 1847). Letter to Benevolent Ladies (1849). Vol 5 (270pp): True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman; with a History of an Enterprise having that for its Object (1851). 'Anti-Suffrage Petition, ' in Godey's Lady's Book, ed. Sarah J. Hale (May 1871), 82: 476-7. Vol 6 (226pp): Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator (1872). Fine. (Subject: Philosophy).
