Woman : $b a vindicationLudovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Philosophy
Woman : $b a vindication
Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario)
Sex; Women
WOMAN, more positive than modern man, 23;
wretched and desperate to-day, 25;
an unchanging individuality not fashioned by man, 25, 27;
her primary adaptation to man and the child, 28;
is Life’s uninterrupted stream, 29;
to-day deprived of her primary adaptations, 30;
rightly dissatisfied with modern man, 30;
modern attitude towards superfluous women insulting and
dishonest, 31, 32;
the Catholic Church more honest towards them, 32;
as Life’s custodian inevitably miserable and in pain to-day, 35;
not equipped for ordering Life, 35;
her cry of warning must be respected but her remedies rejected, 36;
her action guided by her bodily structure, 41;
is above all wedded to Life and sins in its service, 42;
unconsciously exploits man, 42;
does not know her unconscious motives, 43;
ruled by reproductive instinct, 46;
misinterprets promptings of reproductive instinct, 47;
unconscious of her motives, 49, 50;
approaches maleness when unhealthy, 51;
an infidel towards Life when unhealthy, 52;
for woman positiveness to sex and Life is the same thing, 55;
the asexual, hostile to Life, 56;
will follow man if he understands her, 56;
positive to order, 61;
feels no confidence in men lacking in social instinct, 62;
the positive, all sex, 63;
the positive, timid in the presence of men, 64;
the positive, does not continue to practise the arts when once they
have helped her to secure a man, 65;
modern, losing faith in man because of the decline of his social
instinct, 67;
attitude of the positive, to sexual act, 72;
sexual union alone insufficient for, 72, 76;
her love for man a romantic ideal, 73;
the positive, unconscious of what is necessary for full sexual
experience, 73, 74;
positive in the first place to man, 74;
the positive, unconsciously desires full sexual cycle, 75, 76;
the modern European, exaggerates pains of maternity in order to
give man a guilty conscience, 77;
increasing number of women suffering from maternity to-day, 79;
the positive, desires wealth for the protection of her offspring,
84;
the positive, not impressed by spiritual gifts alone, 88;
guided by Life in choice of a mate, 98, 99;
the negative, content without children, 149 _n._;
sadism in, 156, 157;
the “male” desirable, 157-9 (_see also_ Introduction);
cases in which the “male” is undesirable, 159;
maleness in, only made recessive by superior maleness in the
man, 160, 161, 174, 175;
misery of the “male” woman in England, 162;
her demand for the sexual cycle the voice of the Will of the
Species, 178;
rarely tempted to leave her husband if regularly bearing
children, 179;
the positive, grows more indifferent to her husband as the family
grows, 181, 182;
the positive, unconsciously desires to employ her reproductive
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