Mother-age, 119-175 ---- evidence in support of the, 121-122, 143-146 ---- periods of the, 122-125 ---- traces among civilised peoples of, 125, 130, 158-159, 185, 201-202, 211, 228 Mother-age, marriage and courtship customs during, 132, 135-137, 138, 139, 145, 147-148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 165 ---- beginnings of marriage, visiting by night, 159, 169 ---- capture-marriage, 148, 172 ---- exchange-marriage, 166, 170, 173 ---- group-marriage, 124, 146, 151 (_note_), 169 ---- purchase-marriage, 155, 165, 166, 173 ---- monogamy, 137, 138, 139 ---- polyandry, 149-151 ---- position of the mother, 122, 123, 124, 127, 131-132, 133, 136, 137, 139-146, 148, 153, 154, 163, 168-171, 173-174 ---- ---- father, 124, 125, 132, 134, 137, 138, 144, 151, 152, 155, 163, 169, 171 ---- ---- maternal uncle, 124, 132, 140, 144, 152, 163, 164, 173 ---- ---- children, 134, 138, 147, 149, 152, 164, 165 ---- transition to father-right, 134, 147, 148, 155, 168 ---- establishment of father-right, 147, 164 _et seq._, 171-174 Motherhood, endowment of, 62, 348 ---- free, 265, 279 ---- importance of, 7, 9, 27, 255, 265, 312, 314 ---- responsibility of, 18-19, 257, 258, 263, 283, 351-352, 358, 381-382 Mother-right united with father-right, 175, 187 Music and women, 300-301, 306-308 Musquakies. _See_ Iroquois N Nature or inheritance, 15-19, 25, 273, 309 Nayars of Malabar, 151-152 Need for sexual variety among animals, 111-112, 121, 251 ---- ---- men, 112, 121, 371-373 Nurture or environment, 15-17, 19-20, 273, 309 Nutrition and reproduction, 17, 35 ---- connection with sex, 41-44 O Obstetric frog, 80 Octopus, courtship of the, 81 One-sexed world, the idea of a, 268 Orgy, the use of the, 319-320, 372 Ostrich, love-dances of the, 94 Ovum, 36, 39, 53, 250 P Parasitic females, 53-55 ---- males, 51-53, 77 Paradise bird of New Guinea, 89 Parenthood. _See_ Motherhood Parthenogenesis, 49 Passion, importance of, in woman, 319, 326, 370, 374 Passivity, alleged, of female, 65-69, 250-253 Patriarchal subjection of women, 10, 22, 23-24, 173, 204, 212, 215, 219-221, 226, 229, 256, 264-265, 280 Patriarchy. _See_ Father-right under Mother-age Pearson, Karl, on the mother-age, 126-127 (_note_) ---- on variability in women, 299 Pericles, 223, 224 Periodicity of woman in relation to work, 312-313 Phalaropes, reversal of the role of the sexes among, 107, 249, 265 Picts, traces of the mother-age among, 127 Pit-brow women, 284 Plants, sex in, 50 (_note_) Plato on women, 226 Polyandry, 149-154 Polygamy, 192, 204, 230, 279 Position of the sexes, early. _See_ Origin of the sexes Promiscuity, belief in an early period of, 120 (_note_), 121 Primitive human love, 119-121 Primitive woman. _See_ Mother-age Prostitutes, 342, 360, 364-368 Prostitution, 341, 359-374 ---- causes of, 282-283, 362-365, 368-371, 373-374 Prostitution, remedies for, 363-364, 369, 371, 374 Protozoa, 37 _et seq._ Pueblos tribes, 137-139 Purity, the ideal of, for women, 373-374