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A theme

gender inequality

2 fragments in which it recurs.

  1. 1 Marriage and Economics The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Each daughter can claim an income of £ 250, in case of marriage. It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, wh…

  2. 2 Taxing Beauty Gulliver's Travels

    The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determined by their own judg…