Project Gutenberg 2004-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 135 Various Verschillende Various, Various The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Reading ease score: 67.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Tonya Allen and PG Distributed Proofreaders "The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859" by Various is a literary and political magazine published in the mid-19th century. The publication includes a range of articles and essays addressing contemporary societal issues, one of the key topics being the role of women in society and education. The issue likely aims to engage its readers in a critical dialogue about women's rights during a period when these discussions were gaining momentum. The opening of this volume presents a sharp examination of the question, "Ought women to learn the alphabet?" It reviews historical and contemporary arguments regarding women's education, quoting various thinkers and legal texts to highlight the societal constraints placed on women in terms of knowledge and autonomy. The author references a satirical proposal by the Frenchman Sylvain Maréchal, who argued against women learning, juxtaposing this with progressive changes in women's legal rights in America at the time. The piece sets the stage for a consequential debate about women’s intellectual capabilities, societal roles, and the push for equality, revealing growing tensions regarding gender assumptions and the evolving landscape of women’s rights. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en American periodicals AP Text The Atlantic Monthly Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Journalism/Media/Writing Browsing: Literature 562992 562884 2024-11-05T10:12:56.889702 2023-10-05T09:55:09.816292 text/html text/html 562985 562877 2024-11-05T10:12:57.248631 2023-10-05T09:55:10.036333 text/html text/html 311445 2024-11-05T10:13:08.019587 application/epub+zip 318468 2024-11-05T10:13:01.089624 application/epub+zip 288805 2024-11-05T10:12:59.600663 application/epub+zip 554603 2024-11-05T10:13:13.850534 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 520625 2024-11-05T10:13:07.011619 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 387577 2022-09-06T04:01:22.419330 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 518463 518406 2024-11-05T10:12:56.397640 2023-10-05T09:55:09.479303 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 519720 2020-12-26T00:43:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 209313 2020-12-26T00:43:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 519715 2020-12-26T00:43:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 209154 2020-12-26T00:43:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20939 2024-12-05T07:46:35.558559 application/rdf+xml 16134 2024-11-05T10:13:00.157622 image/jpeg 3689 2024-11-05T10:12:59.880600 image/jpeg 306327 2024-11-05T10:12:57.305623 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog