02739cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000280012624500220015426400510017630000470022733600260027433700260030033800360032650000310036250801800039352016290057353400590220265300100226165300400227185600590231185600430237076398UtSlPG20260610134752.0mcr n260607r20251925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a26002003  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aHQ1 aMuir, Willa,d1890-197010aWomen: an inquiry 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-06-27  aMairis, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  a"Women: an inquiry by Willa Muir" is a philosophical feminist essay written in the early 20th century. The book explores whether there is an essential difference between women and men beyond social conditioning, proposing that women’s distinctive creative power lies in fostering human growth and moral life, while men excel at shaping conscious systems and forms.  The essay moves from exposing men’s contradictory view of women (feared and revered) to a core hypothesis drawn from motherhood: women’s energy is more engaged with unconscious life (growth, intuition, emotion), while men’s is more engaged with conscious life (form, reason, abstraction). From this, it argues that women create individuals and inner harmony, and men build systems—both necessary and complementary. It critiques conventional morality as a masculine tool for preserving systems through impersonal codes and punishment, urging women to develop independent, psychological, and religiously grounded values rooted in creative love and a fearless grasp of human experience. The book calls on women to know themselves, reject restrictive “purity” ideals, and carry their womanhood into public life where systems touch individuals (e.g., welfare, justice, reform). It considers art as a meeting of unconscious vitality and conscious form, suggesting women thrive in arts close to lived personality and concrete experience, and closes by urging a rethinking of women’s aims and education so that both sexes can cooperate as equal, complementary creators of human life and its institutions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: The Hogarth Press, 1925  aWomen  aWomen -- Social and moral questions4 uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.21527&seq=940uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76398