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
Fanti of the Gold Coast, 163
Father in relation to the family, 125, 164-167, 169, 171-175, 257
Father-right. _See_ Mother-age
Fear of love in women, 264, 270, 322, 323, 325-326, 369-370, 373-374, 382
Female, origin of, 41-42
Fertilisation, 40, 51, 53, 56, 60, 77
Festivals, connection with mother-right, 121
Festivals, religious, 320, 372
Finery, love of, in women, 303, 322, 365, 370
Fishes, love among, 78
---- parental care among, 57-58
---- sex differences among, 57, 78-79
Flirtation. _See_ Coquetry
Freedom to love for women, 279
Freedom to work for women, 283
Free-love, a criticism of, 349-350
Free-marriage. _See_ Marriage
Frigidity, sexual, 260, 269-270, 369
---- ---- as a cause of prostitution, 368-370, 371
Fuegians, 122
Future of woman, 377-385
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Gallinaceae, 90, 265
Galton's _Law of Inheritance_, 17
Garos tribe, 147
Geddes and Tompson on the anabolic character of the female, 54 (_note_)
Genius in relation to woman, 301-317
Ghasiyas tribe, 148
Goddesses in forefront of early religions, 198, 222
Greece, position of women in ancient, 210-227
---- Athens, subjection of women in, 216, 219-223, 265
---- ---- divorce in, 220
---- ---- _Hetairae_, 222-226, 265
---- ---- marriage and sale of bride, 220-221
---- ---- movement of revolt in, 226-227
---- Homeric women, freedom of, 212-215
---- Spartan women, freedom of, 216-219
---- State regulation of love, 217-218
---- traces of the mother-age in, 211 (_note_), 213, 219, 222
Group-marriage. _See_ Marriage
Growth and reproduction. _See_ Reproduction
Gynaecocracy. _See_ Mother-age
H
Haeckel on reproduction, 17, 35
Hammurabi. _See_ Babylon, marriage and divorce
Hartland on mother-right, 126 (_note_)
Hassanyeh arabs, 166-167
Health and women, 157, 168-169, 197, 215, 217, 284-286
Health in relation to marriage. _See_ Disease
Hebrews, traces of the mother-age among the ancient, 128-130
Hellenic love, 265
Heredity, importance of, 17-20
Hermaphroditism, 76-77
Hindu mountaineers, 149
Hobhouse, on the Egyptian marriage contracts, 183 (_note_)
Hobhouse, on the high character of Roman women, 139
Hopis. _See_ Pueblos
Hunger and love, 75, 101
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Illegitimacy, 160, 190, 205, 218, 342, 347, 348-349
Impurity, 267, 323-327
India, the maternal family in, 147-148
Individual responsibility in love, 257, 351-353, 358-359
Infantile mortality, 348, 378
Inferiority of the female, 12, 20, 23, 25, 47-49, 53-55
---- of the male, 44, 49-53, 56, 57-58, 65-67, 104 _et seq._
Insects, love of, 82
Instinct in woman, 296-297
Intellect in woman. _See_ Mind
Intellectual activity and sex, 324, 325-326
Intellectuals among women, 61-63, 268-270, 325-326
Ireland, traces of mother-age in ancient, 128
Iroquois, 131-135, 141-142
---- forms of marriage among, 132, 134
---- high status of women among, 132, 133, 134, 141-142
---- maternal family among, 131-132, 134
---- tribal customs among, 131, 133, 134-135
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Japan, traces of the maternal family in, 158-159
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