Women of all Nations by T. Athol Joyce

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Women of all Nations is a book by Thomas Athol Joyce, first published in 1908. Presented as a wide-ranging record of women's characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence, the work compiles ethnographic sketches and popular observations from around the globe — Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania — offering readers a panoramic, early-20th-century view of women’s social roles, domestic practices, rites and folkways. Rich in period detail and organised by region and theme, it is useful to anyone researching historical gender roles, cultural customs, or the history of popular anthropology, and it works well as a primary source for vintage social history and historical illustration projects. The book should be read with care: Joyce was a British museum anthropologist of the Edwardian era and the text reflects the assumptions and colonial framing common to that time. That said, it remains a valuable snapshot of early anthropological compilation — a Victorian/Edwardian-era synthesis that influenced later popular and reference works.

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