Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net WOMAN AND WOMANHOOD ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BY DR. C. W. SALEEBY WOMAN AND WOMANHOOD HEALTH, STRENGTH AND HAPPINESS THE CYCLE OF LIFE EVOLUTION: THE MASTER KEY WORRY: THE DISEASE OF THE AGE THE CONQUEST OF CANCER: A PLAN OF CAMPAIGN PARENTHOOD AND RACE CULTURE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WOMAN AND WOMANHOOD A SEARCH FOR PRINCIPLES by C. W. SALEEBY M.D., F.R.S.E., Ch.B., F.Z.S. Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh and formerly Resident Physician Edinburgh Maternity Hospital; Vice-President Divorce Law Reform Union; Member of the Royal Institution and of Council of the Sociological Society. MITCHELL KENNERLEY NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXI ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1911 by Mitchell Kennerley Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co. East Twenty-fourth Street New York ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS PAGE I. FIRST PRINCIPLES 1 II. THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME 34 III. THE PURPOSE OF WOMANHOOD 52 IV. THE LAW OF CONSERVATION 64 V. THE DETERMINATION OF SEX 72 VI. MENDELISM AND WOMANHOOD 81 VII. BEFORE WOMANHOOD 92 VIII. THE PHYSICAL TRAINING OF GIRLS 99 IX. THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN 128 X. THE PRICE OF PRUDERY 132 XI. EDUCATION FOR MOTHERHOOD 151 XII. THE MATERNAL INSTINCT 163 XIII. CHOOSING THE FATHERS OF THE FUTURE 193 XIV. THE MARRIAGE AGE FOR GIRLS 197 XV. THE FIRST NECESSITY 219 XVI. ON CHOOSING A HUSBAND 234 XVII. THE CONDITIONS OF MARRIAGE 258 XVIII. THE CONDITIONS OF DIVORCE 291 XIX. THE RIGHTS OF MOTHERS 296 XX. WOMEN AND ECONOMICS 327 XXI. THE CHIEF ENEMY OF WOMEN 348 XXII. CONCLUSION 386 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER I FIRST PRINCIPLES