Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex : With Suggestions for its Improvement (Paperback)

1. Introductory observations, shewing the claim which society has on women to employ their time usefully; 2. From the connexion between the mind and the body is deduced the necessity of a more hardy mode of rearing female children; 3. Remarks on the duties of a married and a single life; 4. On the duties, studies, and amusements of women of the first class in society; 5. On the duties, studies, and amusements of women of the second class in society; 6. Lucrative employments for the first and second classes suggested; 7. On the duties, attainments, and employments of women of the third class; 8. Observations on the condition of the fourth class of women, suggesting a discrimination in distributing charity and an encouragement of marriage.