The Truth About WomanHartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
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The Truth About Woman
Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
Women; Women -- History; Women -- Social and moral questions
Cirripedes, complemental males among the, 52
Civilisation and sex, 113, 265-266
Clandestine transitory loves, 341
Clothing; effect of, on women, 277, 303-304
Cocotte, the, 253, 303
Concubinage, 189-191, 205, 230
Connection between bodily and spiritual impulses, 323-324, 326
Contract marriage. _See_ Marriage
Conventional lies of the present day, 254 _et seq._, 258-261, 278, 281
Co-operation among animals, 82, 102, 111
Coquetry, 254, 255, 258
Courtship: its importance, 100-111, 252, 254-256
Cruelty in relation to sex, 67, 266-267, 327
D
Darwin on sexual selection, 100-101
_Demi-monde_, 366
Differentiation between the sexes: its importance, 101, 248-249, 257,
261-263, 268, 273-276, 284, 290, 293, 295-297
Diotima, 223
Disease and marriage, 345, 355, 360-361
Disinclination for marriage, 61-63, 225-226, 267, 268-270, 335, 359
Disproportion in numbers between the sexes, 278
Divorce among primitive peoples, 132, 137, 148, 160
---- in Babylon, 205-207
---- in Burma, 157-158
---- in Egypt, 191-192, 356
---- in Greece, 220
---- in Rome, 233, 356
---- attitude of Church and State towards, 354
---- causes for, 353, 354 _et seq._
Divorce by mutual consent, 356, 358
---- importance of, for women, 356, 359
---- psychical, 355
---- reform of, 355-356
Donaldson on high character of Roman women, 239
Duplex sexual morality, 171, 206, 219, 226, 357
E
Economic factor in marriage, 171, 215-216, 253, 282, 342-343, 345, 346-347
---- ---- in prostitution, 282, 362-363, 370
---- dependence of women, 23-24, 253, 264, 280, 342
Egg-cell. _See_ Ovum
Egoism of modern woman, 270, 305, 335, 362, 365, 380-381
Egypt, position of women in ancient, 179-201
---- concubinage in, 189-191
---- divorce in, 191-192
---- family affection in, 192-193, 194-197
---- marriage contracts in, 182-185, 186-191
---- polygamy in, 192
---- traces of the mother-age in, 185-186
Ellis, Havelock, on sexual differences, 21
---- on the position of women in Rome, 234
---- on the artistic impulse in women, 297
---- on religious sexual perception, 320
Emancipation of woman, 4-8
Emma, her marriage with Canute, 127
Emotivity of women, 309, 318
Enfranchisement of women, 291, 362, 379, 380
Ennoblement of love, 347-348, 351-352, 383
Environment, influences of, 15, 17, 21, 273, 299-301, 313
Erotic element in religion, 317, 319-326
Ethelbald, King of Kent, his marriage as evidence of mother-right, 127
Ethelbald, King of W. Saxons, his marriage as evidence of
mother-right, 127
Eugenics, 18-19, 165, 218, 283, 345-346, 350, 355
Euripides on women, 227
Exchange of wives among primitive peoples, 132, 166, 170
---- ---- in Sparta, 218
F
Facial expression and sex, 311-312
Factory workers, condition of, 281-283, 287-288, 362-363
Fairy stories, connection with mother-rights, 121, 126
Family, among animals. _See_ Birds and Animals
---- ---- primitive peoples. _See_ Mother-age
---- ---- ancient civilisation. _See_ Egypt, Babylon, Greece and Rome
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