Voice from the South

Cooper, Anna Julia

ISBN 10: 1481292773 / ISBN 13: 9781481292771

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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Synopsis:

THE two sources from which, perhaps, modern civilization has derived its noble and ennobling ideal of woman are Christianity and the Feudal System. In Oriental countries woman has been uniformly devoted to a life of ignorance, infamy, and complete stagnation. The Chinese shoe of to-day does not more entirely dwarf, cramp, and destroy her physical powers, than have the customs, laws, and social instincts, which from remotest ages have governed our Sister of the East, enervated and blighted her mental and moral life. Mahomet makes no account of woman whatever in his polity. The Koran, which, unlike our Bible, was a product and not a growth, tried to address itself to the needs of Arabian civilization as Mahomet with his circumscribed powers saw them. The Arab was a nomad. Home to him meant his present camping place. That deity who, according to our western ideals, makes and sanctifies the home, was to him a transient bauble to be toyed with so long as it gave pleasure and then to be thrown aside for a new one. As a personality, an individual soul, capable of eternal growth and unlimited development, and destined to mould and shape the civilization of the future to an incalculable extent, Mahomet did not know woman. There was no hereafter, no paradise for her. The heaven of the Mussulman is peopled and made gladsome not by the departed wife, or sister, or mother, but by houri--a figment of Mahomet's brain, partaking of the ethereal qualities of angels, yet imbued with all the vices and inanity of Oriental women. The harem here, and--"dust to dust" hereafter, this was the hope, the inspiration, the summum bonum of the Eastern woman's life! With what result on the life of the nation, the "Unspeakable Turk," the "sick man" of modern Europe can to-day exemplify.

Review: An excellent book....Highly complex but not complicated. (James N. Upton, Ohio State University "A first-class series of essays that cut to the heart of the issues as much today as when it was first published.)

A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era. (James N. Upton, Ohio State University)

So glad to have this important text available for my course. (Elizabeth Keyser, Hollins College)

A brilliant example of how to discuss together the issues of both gender and race, one of the first in US American discourse to so approach such matters. (Dr. Imafedia Okhamafe, University of Nebraska)

Bibliographic Details

Title: Voice from the South
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good