Common Sense About Women

This book, written by the social reformer and activist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, shares his perspective and includes admonishment regarding the treatment and view of women between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As he puts it in his own words: «Every specialist is liable to overrate his own specialty; and the man who thinks of a woman only as a wife and mother is apt to forget, that, before she was either of these, she was a human being.»