Amazons, 228 _Ambel-anak_ marriage, 152 American Indians. _See_ Iroquois Amphibians, 56 Animals, courtship and love among, 77, 78-79, 80, 81, 82, 88-99 ---- the family among, 78, 102, 103 ---- varied forms of the sexual association among, 55, 82, 87-88, 111, 113 ---- variation in parental care of offspring among, 57, 80, 82, 108-111 Arabs, divorce among the ancient, 145, 154 ---- traces of the mother-age among the, 153-154 Argus pheasant, courtship of, 97 Arrogance of modern woman, 270, 305, 326, 362 Art in relation to the sexual impulse, 324 Artistic impulse in women, 308-314 Arts, woman's entrance into the, 314-317 Asceticism among early Christians, 239, 323-324 ---- later change in, 325-326 ---- evils of, 324, 327 ---- value of, 324 Ascetics' attitude towards sexual love, 327 Asexual reproduction, 36-39 Aspasia, 224-226 Athens. _See_ Greece Australia, communal marriage in, 146-147 Australians, West, 122 B Babylon, position of women in ancient, 201-210 ---- marriage and divorce in, 204-207 ---- traces of the mother-age in, 201-202 ---- trade in, 207-210 Bachofen on the mother-age, 142 Bambala tribe, 165 Basanga tribe, 165 Basques, 158 Basso Komo tribe, 165 Bastardy laws, 348-349 Bavili tribe, 163 Beauty-tests, 91, 95, 98-100, 104, 105 _Beena_ marriage, 153 Bees, 43 _et seq._, 59 Biology, importance of, 13, 14, 33-35 Birds, love amongst, 59, 87, 91, 111, 114 Birds, amorous preference of females, 111 ---- aesthetic perception of, 88, 89 ---- family amongst, 59, 87, 88, 102-103, 107, 110, 113 ---- female superiority amongst, 58, 90, 95, 105, 249 ---- love battles 87, 90 ---- love dances, parades and songs, 91, 92-99 ---- monogamy amongst, 91 ---- secondary sexual characters of, 88, 92, 100-101, 104 _et seq._ ---- sex equality amongst, 59, 90, 105 _et seq._, 249 Bloch, Iwan, on promiscuity, 120 (_note_) ---- on the discoveries of M. Currie, 300 ---- on woman's influence on the arts, 307 Borneo native tribes, 123 Botocudos tribe, 122 Brain, sexual differences in, 276 Bride-price, 154 (_note_), 165, 173, 183, 204, 229 Britain, traces of the mother-age in, 127 Budding, 38 Buecher, Karl, on woman's early poetic activity, 306 Burma, high status of women in, 156-157 ---- marriage system and divorce in, 157-158 C Canon law, 240, 344, 354 Canute; his marriage as evidence of mother-right, 127 Celibacy, 324, 326, 328, 341, 382 Cell-division, 35-39 Certificate of health before marriage, 345 Ceylon, polyandry in, 150 Chastity, 165, 171, 189, 206, 219, 223, 226, 255, 323, 324, 326, 327-328, 342, 373-374 ---- as the foundation of marriage, 334, 338 Child, relation to the mother, 23, 27, 103, 168, 170 ---- rights of the, 9, 17, 255, 256-258, 340, 342, 345-346, 352, 355 Child, need of two parents, 42, 95, 111, 350, 358 China, traces of mother-age in, 159 Christianity, its influence on women, 234, 267, 317-328 ---- in connection with marriage and divorce, 239, 240, 344, 354