Download or read book A Woman's Philosophy of Woman; or, Woman affranchised written by Madame d' Héricourt and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Madame d' Héricourt stood up for woman's right by answer to various opinions on the social relations of the sexes put forward by prominent male writers of her time. She attempted to prove that woman has the same rights as man. She challenged and denied the views of women's intellectual inferiority promoted by the socialist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. In this remarkable work, she also confronted the 'woman on a pedestal' theories of Auguste Comte and Jules Michelet. In the latter part of the book, she presented her own 'philosophy of woman with great intellectual firmness.' The work did immense service to French society when the country's literature was on the brink of decay.