# What It Means to be Human

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- Book: [What It Means To Be Human](https://www.bookquiver.com/joanna-bourke/what-it-means-to-be-human) ([What It Means To Be Human.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joanna-bourke/what-it-means-to-be-human.md))
- Authors: [Joanna Bourke](https://www.bookquiver.com/joanna-bourke)
- Publisher: counterpoint
- ISBN: 978-16-1902-167-9
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2013-07-23
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1872, a woman known only as " An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled " Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In fact, their...