The Business of Being a Woman: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Business of Being a Woman, credited to Ida M. Tarbell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell. Read in English by MaryAnnS; Lydia Bateman; Jacquelyn Bengfort; CCGraham; Lynne Thompson; Michele Fry; Kathleen Moore; Mary Ann Weathers "The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which the author feels in the modern woman, of the significance and dignity of the work laid upon her by Nature and by society. Its ideas are the result of a long, if somewhat desultory, observation of the professional, political, and domestic activities of women in this country and in France. These observations have led to certain definite opinions as to those phases of the woman question most in need of emphasis to-day." This book contains, as a footnote, a Declaration of Sentiments which begins 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...' and continues on. A wonderful declaration of the equality of the sexes in many things. This will be a separate section of this project since I think it is excellent in style and sentiment. - Summary by the introduction and BC

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Business of Being a Woman
• Author credits: Ida M. Tarbell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 3:46:53

Track guide

1. 01 - The Uneasy Woman — 30:30
2. 02 - On the Imitation of Man — 25:51
3. 03 - The Business of Being a Woman — 28:36
4. 04 - The Socialization of the Home — 20:40
5. 05 - The Woman and her Raiment — 28:42
6. 06 - The Woman and Democracy — 19:18
7. 07 - The Homeless Daughter — 24:20
8. 08 - The Childless Woman and the Friendless Child — 25:21
9. 09 - On the Ennobling of the Woman's Business — 23:35

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