Chapters (55)
- IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- I. The Feminine Mind
- 1. The Maternal Instinct
- 2. Women’s Intelligence
- 3. The Masculine Bag of Tricks
- 4. Why Women Fail
- 5. The Thing Called Intuition
- II. The War Between the Sexes
- 6. How Marriages are Arranged
- 7. The Feminine Attitude
- 8. The Male Beauty
- 9. Men as Aesthetes
- 10. The Process of Delusion
- 11. Biological Considerations
- 12. Honour
- 13. Women and the Emotions
- 14. Pseudo-Anaesthesia
- 15. Mythical Anthropophagi
- 16. A Conspiracy of Silence
- III. Marriage
- 17. Fundamental Motives
- 18. The Process of Courtship
- 19. The Actual Husband
- 20. The Unattainable Ideal
- 21. The Effect on the Race
- 22. Compulsory Marriage
- 23. Extra-Legal Devices
- 24. Intermezzo on Monogamy
- 25. Late Marriages
- 26. Disparate Unions
- 27. The Charm of Mystery
- 28. Woman as Wife
- 29. Marriage and the Law
- 30. The Emancipated Housewife
- IV. Woman Suffrage
- 31. The Crowning Victory
- 32. The Woman Voter
- 33. A Glance Into the Future
- 34. The Suffragette
- 35. A Mythical Dare-Devil
- 36. The Origin of a Delusion
- 37. Women as Martyrs
- 38. Pathological Effects
- 39. Women as Christians
- 40. Piety as a Social Habit
- 41. The Ethics of Women
- V. The New Age
- 42. The Transvaluation of Values
- 43. The Lady of Joy
- 44. The Future of Marriage
- 45. Effects of the War
- 46. The Eternal Romance
- 47. Apologia in Conclusion
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