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The long road of woman's memory

Chapter 16: The Ways of Women
By Jane Addams
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A sequence of essays and reported conversations explores how women's recollections reshape personal and social life. Memory is shown to soften and transmute hardship into consoling narrative while simultaneously selecting and amplifying experiences that unsettle conventions, inform labor and community relations, and oppose the pressures of war. Drawing on community encounters and wartime observations, the work traces memory's dual function of comforting individuals and gradually assembling collective norms, and ends with a reflective account of interpretative memory as a practical guide for understanding experience and prompting reform.

The Ways of Women

By IDA M. TARBELL

Cloth, 12mo, $1.00

What are the activities and responsibilities of the average normal woman? This is the question which Miss Tarbell considers in this book. Despite the change in the outward habits, conduct, points of view, and ways of doing things, which marks the present age, Miss Tarbell maintains that certain great currents of life still persist. To consider that these are lost in the new world of machines and systems is, she holds, only to study the surface. The relation to society and to the future of the old and common pursuits of the woman is her theme, which at once makes the volume appear as a sort of supplement to her previous work, “The Business of Being a Woman.”

“A book of hopeful, cheerful thoughts ... a very human book, worthy of careful reading.”—Literary Digest.

“A striking exposition of present-day woman’s ways.”—Philadelphia North American.

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