Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies
VI THE MOTHER-AGE CIVILISATION 117 I Progress from Lower to Higher Forms of the Family Relationship. II The Matriarchal Family in America. III Further Examples of the Matriarchal Family in Australia, India, and other Countries. IV The Transition in Father-right.
VI THE MOTHER-AGE CIVILISATION 117 I Progress from Lower to Higher Forms of the Family Relationship. II The Matriarchal Family in America. III Further Examples of the Matriarcha...
3. Chapter 3IX APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTER WITH SOME FURTHER REMARKS ON SEX DIFFERENCE 271 I Women and Labour. II Sexual Differences in Mind and the Artistic Impulse in Women. III...
4. Chapter 4"The method of investigating truth commonly pursued at this time, therefore, is to be held erroneous and almost foolish, in which so many inquire what others have said, and omit...
5. Chapter 5Biology the starting-point of sociology--The irresistible force of Love--The true place of woman and man in the animal kingdom--Analogy between animal love-matings and our own--...
6. Chapter 6"Before studying the sexual relations, and their more or less regulated form in human societies, it will not be out of place to say a few words on reproduction in general, to sk...
7. Chapter 7"Sexually Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement. Sexually Man is Woman's contrivance for fulfilling Nature's behest in the most economical way....
8. Chapter 8"Great effects are everywhere produced in animated Nature, by minute causes.... Think of how many curious phenomena sexual relation gives rise to in animal life; think of the re...
9. Chapter 9A great step in advance is taken when we come to study the courtship and sexual relationships of birds and mammals. There are many examples, in particular among birds, of a beau...
10. Chapter 10Primitive human love--The same domination of sex-needs in man as among the animals--Different conditions of expression--Acquisition of a new element--The individuation of love--...
11. Chapter 11"The reader who grasps that a thousand years is but a small period in the evolution of man, and yet realises how diverse were morality and customs in matters of sex in the perio...
12. Chapter 12cleave unto his wife," refers without any doubt to the early marriage under mother-right, when the husband left his own kindred and went to live with his wife and among her peop...
13. Chapter 13"If we consider the status of woman in the great empires of antiquity, we find on the whole that in their early stage, the stage of growth, as well as in their final stage, the...
14. Chapter 14The practical application of the truths arrived at--A question to be faced--The organic differences between the sexes--Résumé of the facts already established--The error in the...
15. Chapter 15"Woman is an integral constituent of the processes of civilisation, which, without her, becomes unthinkable. The present moment is a turning point in the history of the feminine...
16. Chapter 16"The fullest ideal of the woman-worker is she who works not merely or mainly for men as the help and instrument of their purpose, but who works with men as the instrument yet ma...
17. Chapter 17"The race flows through us, the race is the drama and we are the incidents. This is not any sort of poetical statement; it is a statement of fact. In so far as we are individual...
18. Chapter 18"Among the higher activities and movements of our time, the struggle of our sisters to attain an equality of position with the strong, the dominant, the oppressive sex, appears...