The Sexes in Science and History: An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to manGamble, Eliza Burt
Philosophy
The Sexes in Science and History: An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to man
Gamble, Eliza Burt
Sex; Women -- History; Women -- Social conditions
Birds, their courtships, 20-21;
aversion of females for certain males among, 20;
the female among, chooses her mate, 20, 23, 25, 108;
efforts of the male to please the female among, 21;
eagerness of the male among, 21, 26, 30;
powers of the female among, 27;
inheritance of the female among, 29;
inheritance of the male among, 29;
constancy of the female among, 108
Burgesses, 272
C
Captives, not enslaved in early groups, 145;
as sexual slaves, 163, 276
Cecrops, 262, 272, 329, 362
Chastity of early races, 110, 113, 114, 306
Clisthenes, 249, 261
Codrus, 249, 259, 264
Colour-blindness, 55
Common law, the, woman’s position under, 357
Communal marriage, 225
Concubines, 327
_Couvade, la_, its extent, 148
Crates, 334
Cuckoos, character of, 69
Cynic philosophy, the, its principles, 332
D
Danaūs, daughters of, 274
Deme, establishment of, 249, 260
Democracy, of early races, 127;
of the early Greeks, 250-251;
decay of, 264-265, 267;
in ancient Italy, 313
Descent, traced through men, 128, 135, 281;
in Arabia, 131;
in Greece, 133
Descent, traced through women, 141, 142, 157, 222;
its universality, 228, 311;
among the Iroquois Indians, 249;
law of, 253;
in Lycia, 310
Desires, primary, of the male, 20
_Dicteriades_, 327
Differentiation, 8, 10, 16, 65
Diseases of women, 61;
not constitutional, 54
Dorians, their conservatism, 285
Draco, 266;
his laws, 322
E
Early Christianity, 361
Ecclesia, 251
Ecclesiasticism, its effect on the position of women, 356-357
Egoism, its development in males, 17, 86;
not pronounced among earliest races, 125, 140;
its development in later ages, 155
England in the nineteenth century, 370
Epicureans, 333
Eupatrids, their cupidity, 264
Evolution, individual and historic, 15
F
Family, the, not the basis of the gens, 246
Female, conditions which produce the, 39
Fijians, their customs, 116-117;
parental affection among, 118
Foreign women, as wives, 188, 192, 219;
as concubines, 283, 327, 348
France, marriage customs in, 172;
in the nineteenth century, 370
G
Gaius, 353
Genealogies traced through fathers, 271
Gentile organization, the, universality of, 124;
principles established by, 124;
democratic character of, 127, 138, 139, 152;
unity of, 128;
government under, 137, 152, 156, 247;
property belonging to, 140;
altruistic character of, 140, 157;
in Greece, 245;
its decay, 260;
its final overthrow, 261;
in Athens, 262
Glycera, 341
Government, development of, 248
Greek society, its construction, 243, 245
H
Hairy covering for the body, 49-51
Hand, the female, 59
Hercules, tradition of, 273
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