Woohoo!!! Check Out This Book I Just Won On Ebay!

Woohoo!!!! I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of this book for a long time, and tonight I won one on eBay. I read it years ago, and I've wanted to read it again. This is absolutely great!!!!

The below paragraph is taking from the auction site book description.

MRS MAN

BY UNA STANNARD

JUST AS ZEUS SWALLOWED HIS FIRST WIFE WHEN SHE BECAME PREGNANT AND CARRIED THE BABY TO TERM HIMSELF, SO MEN CREATED A SOCIETY IN WHICH WOMEN COULD NOT GET FOOD, CLOTHING, AND SHELTER UNLESS THEY BECAME MAN'S WOMB. THIS IS ONE OF THE STARLING THEORIES SET FORTH IN MRS MAN - THAT IT WAS MAN'S INTENSE DESIRE TO ACQUIRE THE REPRODUCTIVE PART HE LACKED THAT MADE HIM REDUCE WOMAN FROM AN INDEPENDENT BEING TO A WIFE, THE SEX HE SAID WAS CREATED TO SERVE AS HIS WOMB, BEAR HIS CHILDREN.

DRAWING FROM SUCH DIVERSE SOURCES AS MYTH, EMBRYOLOGY AND EARLY CHRISTINA WRITINGS, MRS MAN DEMONSTRATES THAT WHAT REDUCED WOMAN TO MAN'S WOMB WAS THE ERRONEOUS BELIEF SEMEN ALONE GENERATED LIFE, LIFE WOMAN MERELY NATURED, A BELIEF DISPROVED ONLY 100 YEARS AGO AND STILL EMBEDDED IN OUR CUSTOMS, LAWS AND LANGUAGE.

VECAUSE WE DID NOT KNOW THE TRUE FACTS OF LIFE CHILDREN WERE GIVEN THE SURNAME OF THE FATHER AND WOMEN BECAME MRS MAN. BY FOCUSING ON SOCIETY'S REQUIREMENT THAT WIVES TAKE THE NAME OF THEIR HUSBAD, MRS MAN MAKES PAINFULL CLEAR THE PRISON OF WIFEHOOD. FOR MOST OF HISTORY WOMEN COULD HAVE NO OTHER IDENTITY BUT WIFE. EVEN ACTRESSES, THE FIRST WOMEN WHO HAD ANOTHER PROFESSION, USED TO CHANGE THEIR STAGE NAME WITH EVERY HUSBAND. THE FEW WOMEN WHO ACHIEVED ANOTHER IDENTY FELT GUILTY - A JOURNALIST AS WELL KNOWN AS DOROTHY THOMPSON YEARNED TO BE "SWALLOWED UP" BY HER HUSBAND AND FOR A WHILE PUBLISHED AS "MRS SINCLAIR LEWIS." THE HANDFUL OF HEROIC WOMAN WHO DARED KEEP THEIR OWN IDENTITY AFTER MARRIAGE HAD TO ENDURE THE OUTRAGE OF CONVENTIONAL WIVES AND THE WRATH OF JUDGES WHO, AS LATE AS THE 1970S, COMPARED THEM TO WHORES AND DEPRIVED THEM OF THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

WE NEVER TIRE OF REPEATING "WHAT'S IN A NAME?" BUT THE NAMES MARRIED WOMEN USED REVEAL THE POWERFUL UNCONSICIOUS DRIVES AND TRAGIC WASTE OF MAN AND WOMANKIND. MRS MAN IS AN ORIGINAL, PROFOUND AND DEEPLY MOVING BOOK, WRITTEN WITH DISPASSIONATE CALM, WITH AND HUMOR.

THIS BOOK LOOKS BRAND NEW ~ ADDITION PHOTO'S AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. IT WOULD MAKE A GREAT GIFT FOR ANY BOOK LOVER. SHIPPING IS A LITTLE MORE EXPENSIVE DUE TO THE WEIGHT OF A QUALITY HARDBACK NOVEL.

The graphic on the cover says it all. It was after reading this book that I decided if I ever got married i would keep my own name.