Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes

PART V

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SEXUAL EDUCATION AND THE YOUNG GIRL

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BLACKWELL, E. Counsel to Parents. London, 1913.

BREMNER, C. S. Education of Girls and Women. (Preface by E. P. Hughes.) London, 1897.

BUTLER, G. F. Love and its Affinities. Chicago, 1899.

CHESSER, E. S. From Girlhood to Womanhood. London, 1913.

CHISHOLM, DR. Medical Inspection of Girls in Secondary Schools.

CLAPARÈDE, ED. Psychologie de l’Enfant. Paris, 1916.

CLOUSTON, SIR T. S. The Psychological Dangers to Women in Modern Social Developments. London, 1911.

Before I Wed; or, Young Men and Women. London, 1913.

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GOULD, F. J. Parent’s Guide to the Sex Instruction of Sons and Daughters.

On the Threshold of Sex. (Introduction by Dr. Saleeby.) London, 1909.

GRANT, C., and HODGSON, N. The Case for Co-Education.

**HALL, G. STANLEY. Adolescence. 2 vols. New York, 1904.

Educational Problems. 2 vols. New York and London, 1911.

Youth: Its Education, Regimen and Hygiene. New York, 1906.

Aspects of Child Life and Education. (By G. S. Hall and some of his pupils. Ed. by T. L. Smith.) Boston, 1912.

Contents of Children’s Minds on Entering School. _Pedagogical Seminary_, June 1891.

HOUSMAN, L. The Immoral Effects of Ignorance in Sex Relations. London, 1911.

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**MOLL, A. The Sexual Life of the Child. (Translated by Dr. Eden Paul.) London, 1912.

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SIDGWICK, MRS. H. Health Statistics of Women Students of Cambridge and Oxford and of their Sisters. London, 1890.

Reports, Minority and Majority, of Special Commission on Co-Education of the Sexes. School Document No. 19. Boston.

THOMAS, C. E. Athletic Training for Girls. London, 1912.

THOMSON, M. H. Environment and Efficiency.

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WOODS, A. Co-Education. London and New York, 1893.

REPORTS

Annual Report for 1914 of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education. (Cd. 8055.)

Annual Report for 1915 of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education. (Cd. 8338.)

Board of Education: School Attendance and Employment in Agriculture. 1916. (Cd. 8171.)

Final Report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases. 1916. (Cd. 8189.)

Appendix, Minutes of Evidence, etc., to Final Report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases. 1916. (Cd. 8190.)

Ministry of Munitions: Health of Munitions Workers Committee. Memorandum 4, Employment of Women. (Cd. 8185.) Memorandum 5, Hours of Work. (Cd. 8186), and Memorandum 12, Statistical Information concerning Output in Relation to Hours of Labour. (Cd. 8344.) August 1916.

Ministry of Munitions (Health of Munitions Workers Committee), Juvenile Employment. 1916. (Cd. 8362.)

Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration. 1904. (Cd. 2175.)

Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws (Minority Report). 1909. (Cd. 4499.)

Report on Sex in Industry, being Part IV of 33rd Report of the Mass. Bureau of Statistics of Labour. Boston, 1904.

The Declining Birth-Rate, its causes and effects, being the Report of and chief evidence taken by the National Birth-Rate Commission. London, 1916.

Report of the Proceedings of the Conference on Infant Mortality held in Caxton Hall, Westminster, March 1908. King & Son, London, 1908.

INDEX

A

Abolition of one home. (_See_ Home life threatened.)

Abolition of marriage. (_See_ Free love.)

Abortion, 36, 45, 217, 258, 264

Adam and Eve myth, 189-190

Adolescence, 324, 329 _et seq._, 334, 340-341, 359 _et seq._

Adolescence, Dangers of, 305-306, 333-335, 341 _et seq._, 345-346

Adolescent girls, 175, 329-347, 356-374

Aksakoff, S., 171

Alligators, 79

Ancestors, Our primitive, 143 _et seq._

Animal parenthood. (_See_ Parenthood, pre-human.)

Ante-natal deaths, 36, 45

Ants, 69, 70

Asceticism, 199, 220. (_See also_ Celibacy.)

B

Bastardy laws in England, 257, 258, 261, 262-263, 270, 271, 276-277

Bastardy laws in Norway, 272-276

Bastardy laws in other countries, 277-279

Bastardy laws in Scotland, 263

Bastardy laws, Reform of, 271-282

Beauty and one Beast story, 295

Bees, 69, 70

Bird parents, 60, 63, 99-114

Birds, Devotion of, to family, 103 _et seq._

Birth-rate, Decline of, 31, 32, 36, 247, 258, 263, 355-356, 357, 371

Bloch, Iwan, 192

Bonhote, J. Lewis, 100

Brauer, 83

C

Carbonnier, M., 91, 93

Care of young by pre-human parents, 59-135

Carnivores, 123, 124

Celibacy in men and women, 234

Celibacy, Suffering caused by, 237

Celibacy, Value of, 236

Celibate women, 372

Chastity, 194, 234, 235-237

Child, Duty to, 202, 203-204, 214

Child, Its rights, 181-183, 356

Child to be trained by experts, 169, 181-182

Child welfare, 31, 33, 35 _et seq._, 52, 247, 264, 279, 374

Children born in sin, 221

Children, Desire for, 113-114, 214, 217

Children, Dislike of, 216-217, 220, 223-225

Children killed by conditions of life, 36 _et seq._, 40 _et seq._

Children not wanted, 352, 354

Child’s curiosity on sex matters, 310 _et seq._, 320-323, 324

Child’s need of its parents, 181

Civilisation, Failure of, 40 _et seq._

Co-education, 332

Communal clan, 145, 149-150, 152, 155, 156, 159, 174, 191

Communal houses, 169, 181

Communal living, 173, 176, 177, 180

Companionship essential to true marriage, 209

Concealments in love sinful, 230 _et seq._, 249-254, 257, 261

Conduct, Advantages of fixed standards for, 203

Confusion in women’s lives, 168, 173, 203

Connection between mother and child, 60, 61, 118-121, 147, 151, 154, 184

Contempt for woman’s sphere, 363

Contrast between the family and the clan, 150-153

Contrasts between the sexes, 249-254

Co-operation between the father and the mother, 71, 105-106, 121, 132, 196

Co-operative child-rearing, 111-113, 167 _et seq._, 169, 176, 177, 181

Courtship, 152

Creating a home, 177

Creek Indians of Georgia, 180

Crime in the family, 108

Crime of irresponsible parenthood, 240

Crime of overworking mother, 40 _et seq._

Crocodiles, Young, 80

Cuckoo, 63, 107

Curiosity on sex matters, Child’s, 310 _et seq._, 320-323, 324

Customs of male ownership of woman, 144 _et seq._, 149, 153

D

Darwin, 126

Death-rate, 32

Death-rate, Illegitimate, 262-264

Death-rate, Infantile, 36-38, 45-46, 287, 355

E

Economic conditions. (_See_ Industrialism.)

Educating girls as sexless neuters, 332 _et seq._ (_See also_ Sexual education.)

Education, 34, 35, 305-377

Education, Failure of, 331-337, 341, 344-345, 371 _et seq._

Eggs, Care of, 63, 70, 80, 81, 103

Egoism in female, 19 _et seq._, 102, 119, 120, 133, 170, 183, 184, 221, 223, 361

Egoism in male, 64, 108, 117, 119, 121, 124, 127, 129, 143 _et seq._, 150

Egoistic factor in sex, 66, 103, 117, 150, 222, 367-368

Ehrlich, 287

Ellis, Havelock, 127

Emotion displayed by fishes, 89

Emotion, Human need of, 20-21, 135, 177, 201

Emotional view of life, Importance of, 372-373

Environment, Effect of, 62

Espinas, Alfred, 75, 79, 126

Eugenics, 197

F

Fabre, Henri, 55, 65-66, 68, 71, 72, 74, 76, 95

Familial groups, 125-126, 145. (_See also_ Communal clan and Familial instinct.) (_See_ Parental instinct.)

Family, The, 165-186

Family, Experiments in the, 66, 70, 85, 99, 100, 109-114, 153, 165, 173, 195-196

Family, History of the, 141-159

Family, Ideal of, 165-186

Family, Limitation of the, 82, 122, 123, 132, 133, 194, 197, 217

Family, Reversal in duties connected with the, 60, 63, 79, 82-84, 86-89, 90, 92, 93, 94-95, 99-103, 266

Father, Legal parent, 155 _et seq._, 157, 192

Father-right, 159, 192-194. (_See also_ Patriarchal family.)

Fathers, Devotion of, 64-65, 70-72, 184-185. (_See also_ Family, Reversal in duties connected with.)

Feeding offspring, 39, 64, 70-71, 103, 104-105, 118, 120, 147, 264

Fidelity, Conjugal, 189, 191, 196, 203, 204, 205, 210, 213, 220, 222, 297

Fish fathers, 86-94

Freud, S., 235, 315, 316

G

Gallinaceous birds. (_See_ Polygamous fathers.)

Games of children, 315

Geddes, Professor, 89

George, Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd, 35, 257

George, W. L., 167, 251

Gilman, Mrs. Perkins, 169

Girls, Denial of their womanhood, 345 _et seq._ (_See also_ Adolescent girls.)

Girls, Hidden life of, 334 _et seq._, 366, 368

Girls, Passage into womanhood, 360 _et seq._, 366. (_See also_ Adolescent girls.)

Girls, Real nature of, 362, 368

Girls, View of love, 367-368

Gonorrhœa, 287. (_See also_ Venereal diseases.)

H

Habits, Importance of, 70, 120, 143

Hall, Stanley, 367

Hensel, Dr. Reinhold, 92

Home, Attachment of woman to the, 146

Home, Importance of, 62, 109, 165-186

Home and one family, 165-186

Home life threatened, 49, 174, 176 _et seq._, 185, 241 _et seq._, 244-247

Houtzeau, J. C., 127

Howard, Eliot, 107

Hudson, W. H., 107

Hygiene, Sexual. (_See_ Sexual education.)

Hypocrisy, 231 _et seq._, 236, 238, 257, 346

I

Ideal of the home, 170, 196, 243-244

Ideal of marriage, 248-249, 300

Ideals, The guide to conduct, 52, 166, 170, 203, 204-205, 210, 216, 300, 342, 344, 354, 372

Ignorance, Evils of, 40

Illegitimacy, Causes of, 268-270

Illegitimacy, Its connection with marriage, 267-268

Illegitimacy, Problem of, 257-282

Illegitimacy, Sin of, 259, 261, 274

Illegitimate birth the result of unhappy marriages, 268

Illegitimate child, Appointment of guardians for, 279, 280

Illegitimate child, Protection of, 259, 261, 265, 270-282

Illegitimate infantile death-rate, 261-264

Incubation of eggs, 63, 103

Independence of woman. (_See_ Freedom and woman.)

Indifference to offspring among pre-human parents, 63, 87, 100, 121

Individual family, 145, 155 _et seq._, 159, 170, 181, 185, 195, 245

Individualism, 204, 352, 372

Industrialism, 40 _et seq._, 50, 52, 170, 171, 174, 177, 182, 244, 352, 356

Industrial values, 352, 372

Infanticide, 128, 267, 279

Infantile death-rate. (_See_ Death-rate, Infantile.)

Infantile sexuality, 315-316, 340

Insect home-makers, 64-66, 67, 68, 70, 74

Insect parenthood, 59-76

Instinct, Action of, 21, 37, 61, 64, 70, 75-76, 199-216, 341, 356

Instincts, Atrophy of, 356 _et seq._

Instincts, Primitive, 199

Instincts, Regeneration of, 201, 298-300, 376, 377

Instruction of girls among primitive peoples, 152, 344

Instruction in sex more necessary for girls than boys, 329-339

Intellectual reformers, 166-168, 196, 197, 330

Intelligence, Connection between caring for young, 75-76, 95, 99, 131, 132, 135

Iroquois Indians, 180

J

Jealousy, 109, 121 _et seq._, 143-146, 150 _et seq._, 202-203

K

Key, Ellen, 272

Kinship, Feeling of, 144. (_See also_ Mother, The, in one primitive family.)

L

Laws, Need of, to protect illegitimate child, 279-282. (_See also_ Mother, The unmarried.)

Lessons to be learnt from past history of one family, 142-143, 165 _et seq._, 191 _et seq._

Lessons to be learnt from pre-human parents, 60 _et seq._, 76, 82-83, 93-96, 99-102, 112, 114, 130-135, 165, 181

Letourneau, 125, 126, 128

Letters from working women. (_See_ Women’s Co-operative Guild.)

Levick, Murray, 110

Libertinage. (_See_ Profligacy.)

Life, Externalising of, 17 _et seq._, 351 _et seq._

Life, Meaning of, 135, 159, 197-198, 375-376

Love, 190, 198-200, 201, 211, 214-215, 326, 347, 376-377

Love, Art of, 298

Love-child. (_See_ Illegitimacy.)

Love, Free, 197, 202, 211. (_See also_ Sexual relationships, Irregular.)

Love triumphant, 376-377

Love, Wild, 239, 251

Love, Woman’s view of, 199 _et seq._, 294-297, 339 _et seq._, 345-347, 373 _et seq._

Lover, The passionate, 198 _et seq._

Lovers, Responsibilities of, 224, 240, 253-254, 273, 275, 277, 376-377

M

Maeterlinck, M., 64

Male held to the family, 158, 183

Male the psychical mother, 85 _et seq._, 134. (_See also_ Fathers, Devoted.)

Mammals, Parenthood among, 117-135, 165

Man the protector, 15

Man, Suffered selfishness of, 34, 269, 343

Marriage as it affects parenthood, 34, 248, 268

Marriage, A religious duty, 199

Marriage, Christian view of, 199-200

Marriage, Difficulties of, 198, 211, 212

Marriage, Immorality in connection with, 200, 202, 209, 213, 230

Marriage, Late, 236, 237, 267-268, 294

Marriage, Maternal, 150-152, 153, 156, 191, 245

Marriage, Some people unsuited for, 209, 211-212, 221, 222-223, 230, 239

Marriage, Various forms of, 133, 145, 154, 156, 191, 194

Marriages, Causes of unhappiness in, 342, 344

Maternal communism. (_See_ Communal clan.)

Maternal family. (_See_ Matriarchate.)

Maternal instinct, 34, 37 _et seq._, 61, 70, 79, 80, 84 _et seq._, 99, 123, 216-217, 221, 222

Maternal instinct in the making, 55, 70, 85, 101, 131. (_See also_ Parenthood, Pre-human.)

Masturbation, 339

Matriarchate, 141 _et seq._, 150, 152

Megapode, 63

Meikle, Wilma, 168

Menstruation, Importance of, 357, 359-360, 363-364

Menstruation, Our neglect of, 353, 356, 357-364

Metchnikoff, 143

Militancy, 14, 19 _et seq._

Millais, T. G., 109

Mivart, St. George, 81, 91

Money, L. Chiozza, 241, 246

Monkeys, 119, 123, 127, 144

Monogamy among the animals, 73, 74, 109, 126-127, 128

Monogamy, Desire for, 193 _et seq._, 195, 202, 203, 204-205, 209, 238

Monogamous marriage, 158, 189-205, 209 _et seq._, 230, 238, 248

Monogamy, Woman’s inclination towards, 189-190

Moral standards, Necessity for, 203, 204

Mother-age. (_See_ Matriarchate.)

Mother, Descent reckoned through, 152

Mother egoism. (_See_ Egoism, Female.)

Mother, Our neglect of the, 35 _et seq._, 40 _et seq._, 46, 353 _et seq._, 356, 357

Mother, The, in one primitive family, 141-159

Mother, The unmarried, 257-282

Motherhood, Decay of, 35 _et seq._, 40 _et seq._, 215 _et seq._, 256, 364

Motherhood degraded, 35 _et seq._, 40 _et seq._, 99-102, 107, 123, 182, 214, 217, 223-225, 347

Motherhood, Enlightened, 33, 181, 360, 374, 377

Motherhood, Healthy, 40-44, 50

Motherhood, Saving of, 34, 52-53, 185-186

Motherhood, Shirking of, 356

Motherhood, Some women unsuited for, 221-222, 223-225

Mother-instinct. (_See_ Maternal instinct.)

Mother-right, 154. (_See also_ Matriarchate.)

Mothers injured through work, 40-41, 354

Mothers, Neglectful, 66, 87-88, 99-102, 107-108

Mother-woman, 221 _et seq._

Munition workers, 46-53, 240

N

Nervous energy, Importance of, for women, 50-52, 353 _et seq._

Nestmaking, 65, 67, 79, 80, 82, 84, 90, 91, 102, 107-108

New generation of young women, 351-352

Newts, 85

Noguchi, 287

Nursing offspring. (_See_ Feeding offspring.)

O

Obsessions, 316

Offspring cared for by father. (_See_ Fathers, Devoted.)

Ostrich, 103

P

Parent hunger, 113-114, 214

Parental conduct. (_See_ Intelligence, Connection between caring for young.)

Parental conduct dependent on the sexual appetite, 102, 221 _et seq._, 368

Parental duties, Neglect of, weakens family, 107

Parental instinct, 34, 60, 61, 62, 70, 81, 91, 94 _et seq._, 105, 106, 130, 196, 214, 221, 368

Parental instinct, Diversity of, 62, 94, 99, 132, 134

Parental instinct not fixed in the mother, 79, 89, 99-102, 130, 184, 223

Parental instinct, Strength of the, dependent on expression, 94, 135, 196

Parental sacrifice, 63, 64-65, 66, 70-73, 103 _et seq._, 106, 221

Parental sacrifice more common with mother than father, 66, 171-173, 185

Parenthood, Difference between human and pre-human, 61, 130

Parenthood, Pre-human, 34, 37, 130, 135

Parents, Bad, 107, 182-183, 221 _et seq._

Paternal instinct. (_See_ Fathers, Devoted.)

Patriarchal family, 68-69, 127, 143 _et seq._, 150, 156 _et seq._, 166, 171-173, 185

Patriarchal family. (_See_ Advantages of.) 157-159, 170, 173, 185, 191 _et seq._, 203

Paul, Jean, 306

Penang, Highlanders of Sumatra, 180

Penguins, 109-114, 181

Phalaropes, 100, 102, 224

Pleasure factor in love, 221, 222

Polygamy, 154, 193-195

Polygamy connected with desire for offspring, 87, 88, 148

Polygamous fathers, 101, 108-109, 124 _et seq._, 126, 127, 133

Polygamy, Legalised, 191, 195, 213

Polyandrous mothers, 101, 133, 223

Polyandry, 154-155

Position of the father under matriarchy, 151, 191

Position of the mother under patriarchy, 171-172, 192

Primitive human family, 141-159

Problem of education. (_See_ Education.)

Production, Prodigality of, 82, 123

Profligacy, 193, 202, 210, 215, 230, 281, 343

Prostitute, The natural, 221

Prostitution, 230, 239, 250, 252, 285-286, 306

Prudery, 48, 308, 357

Prurience, 308, 309, 320

Psalmist on blessings of home, 376-377

Psychological meaning of the combination of man and woman, 331-332

Pueblos of New Mexico, 180

Puritan views of sex, 218, 346

Purpose, Women’s want of, 180, 290

Pycraft, 68, 80, 82, 84, 89, 90, 92, 101, 104, 106

Python mother, 80

R

Race-protecting instinct, 22

Racial duty, 102, 175, 202, 214, 262 _et seq._, 265, 285 _et seq._, 354, 374-377

Remedy, The, 351-377

Repression, Dangers of, 21, 202, 261, 317, 339, 340, 355, 373

Reptile parents, 63, 79-86

Response to life, Deadening of the, 351 _et seq._

Rodents, 129

Romance, Dangers of, for girls, 295, 338, 366

Rousseau, 306

S

Sacrifice, Woman’s obligation of, 15, 129, 145, 376

Salamander parents, 85

Salzmann, 306

Saving of infant life. (_See_ Child welfare.)

Scharlieb, Dr. Mary, 355

Schneider, 91

Schools for girls, 35, 334, 341, 362, 370

Schools, Special adolescent, 363-371

Secondary sexual characters, 73, 84, 134

Secret sexual relationships, 229-254

Seduction, 269

Self-assertion the modern disease, 17 _et seq.___, 171, 241 _et seq._, 352

Servants, Danger of, with boys, 311, 312

Sex antagonism, 242, 331, 343

Sex, Fear of, 307, 308 _et seq._, 313, 315, 320, 324-326, 329, 331, 339, 343, 346, 357, 362, 373, 375

Sex hunger, 100, 101, 146, 201, 213, 215, 232

Sex, Importance of, 99, 172, 213, 215, 231, 232, 235, 236

Sex needs, 232 _et seq._, 234-235, 251

Sex, Reverence for, 326

Sex, Unceasing action of, 362

Sexes, Differences between, 17, 18, 19, 27, 60, 73, 145, 189, 234-235, 331-332, 342, 366, 368

Sexes, Disproportion in numbers of, 230, 245, 351

Sexual abstinence, 232, 236. (_See_ Celibacy.)

Sexual anæsthesia, 342

Sexual association. (_See_ Marriage, Various forms of.)

Sexual contrast, 199, 231

Sexual diseases. (_See_ Venereal diseases.)

Sexual disharmonies, 197, 235, 239, 317, 339, 345, 346

Sexual education, The child’s, 289, 305-326, 367

Sexual education, The girl’s, 268, 290, 294, 329-346, 366 _et seq._

Sexual friendships, 198, 230 _et seq._, 238, 249-255. (_See also_ Sexual relationships, Irregular.)

Sexual happiness, 195, 229, 250, 335, 342, 354

Sexual health, 235, 285 _et seq._, 316, 329, 335, 362, 365

Sexual ignorance, 42-43, 199, 220, 222, 232, 243, 260, 268, 305-377

Sexual impulse, 214, 306, 330, 333 _et seq._, 345-347, 368

Sexual life, Liberation from, 168, 201

Sexual life, Neglect of, 34, 47-48, 201, 212, 213, 229, 231, 290, 298, 330 _et seq._, 342, 362-363, 368-369

Sexual nature, Woman’s, 18, 199, 221, 224, 234-236, 239, 298, 341, 353, 357 _et seq._

Sexual relationships, Irregular, 34, 193, 195, 202, 210-211, 213, 229-254, 257, 260, 285, 357

Sexual relationship not a private matter, 237 _et seq._

Sexual relationships, Open declaration of, 237 _et seq._, 249-254, 257

Sexual sacrifice, 297

Sexual sin, Man’s responsibility for, 292 _et seq._

Sexual superiority, 149, 199, 244, 311

Sexual transformation, 86-89, 99-102, 134, 333, 334, 354

Shaw, Bernard, 167

Siren type of woman, 221 _et seq._, 224-225

Social colonies, 68 _et seq._, 109. (_See also_ Communal clan.)

Sociability dependent on weakness, 127

Species where young are tended by the father. (_See_ Reversal in the family duties.)

Stability of the home, 165, 179

Standard of conduct, 344

Sterile unions, 249

Sticklebacks, Devoted fathers among, 86-89, 94, 109

Sticklebacks, Unnatural mothers among, 87-88, 94

Still-births, 36, 45, 262

Suffrage martyrs, 25

Suffrage movement, 13-28

Syphilis, 272, 287. (_See also_ Venereal diseases.)

T

Taboos, Sexual, 150, 331

Tadpoles, 82, 84

Termites. (_See_ Ants.)

Thomson, J. Arthur, 70, 89

Toads, 83

Totem marks, 150

U

Unconscious, The, 235, 339-340, 346, 354

Union, Form of, between the sexes, 62, 73-74, 133. (_See also_ Sexual relationships, Irregular.)

Unmarried mother. (_See_ Mother, The unmarried.)

Urban life, Effect on motherhood, 37 _et seq._

V

Variability of the male, 121

Venereal diseases, 200, 213, 250, 272, 285-300

Venereal diseases, Commission, 286-292, 308

Venereal diseases, Dangers of secrecy, 286, 288, 292 _et seq._

Venereal diseases, Woman’s responsibility for, 292-300

Visiting-husbands, 150, 151, 245

Voeltzkow, 80

Votes for women, 197. (_See also_ Suffrage movement.)

W

Wage-earning woman, The ideal, 170, 241 _et seq._, 246, 373

Wallace, R., 100

War as impetus to action, 31, 247, 258, 263, 371, 375

War, Effect of, on woman’s position, 14-17, 26-28, 31 _et seq._, 46 _et seq._, 174, 179 _et seq._, 212, 241 _et seq._, 244-247, 251, 351, 355

War, The Great, 14, 26, 27-28, 31 _et seq._, 247, 291, 375

Wasps, Social, 69

Wasserman, 287

Wastage of life from war, 32, 36, 212, 245, 247, 258, 263, 371

Waste, The sin of, 31, 36 _et seq._, 51, 59, 175, 212, 258, 265, 270

Wedekind, Frank, 305

Wells, H. G., 38, 167, 168

Wife, Coldness of, 296, 342-343, 344

Wilson, Dr. Ed. A., 110, 114

Woman, Character of, 189 _et seq._, 191, 215 _et seq._, 234, 240, 345

Woman, Desertion of the, 251-260

Woman, Entrusted with life’s supreme mission, 374 _et seq._

Woman, Maternal type of, 267 _et seq._

Woman, The domesticator of man, 150 _et seq._

Woman’s attitude to life, 373 _et seq._

Woman’s demand to live her own life, 18, 21, 172, 179, 216, 351-353

Woman’s movement, The, 18 _et seq._, 27-28

Woman’s power over man, 190-191, 344, 377

Woman’s position in the primitive family, 145-149

Woman’s primary qualities, 60, 179, 345 _et seq._

Woman’s undervaluation of herself, 19, 28, 190, 201, 335, 345, 352

Women and Freedom, 168, 375 _et seq._

Women, The desire of, 203, 210, 241, 243 _et seq._, 244, 246, 354, 372, 373, 374, 376

Women, Types of, 221-225

Women, Unsatisfied, 351

Women’s Co-operative Guild (maternity letters), 40-44

Women’s desire for excitement, 19, 21 _et seq._, 28

Women’s need for experience, 19, 21-23, 27-28

Work and women, 15, 17, 18, 28, 35, 40 _et seq._, 46 _et seq._, 51, 170, 174 _et seq._, 179, 240 _et seq._, 348, 372

Work, Bad conditions of, 40 _et seq._, 175, 258, 352-354

Workers, Munition, 46-52, 240

Y

Youth, Importance of, 122-123, 361. (_See also_ Sexual education.)

Youth, Our sins towards, 290, 305, 306, 345-347, 361, 374 _et seq._