Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies

The unwelcome child

affects her towards the Father of her Child—Who is responsible for the Existence of Children, God or the Parents?—Has the Woman a right to say when she shall assume the office of Maternity, or subject herself to the relation that leads to Maternity?—A certain method to secure...

Chapters

1. LETTER I.—THE MOTHER’S POWER OVER HER CHILD: Maternity, its

2. LETTER II.—UNDESIRED MATERNITY:—Crime against the Mother—How it

affects her towards the Father of her Child—Who is responsible for the Existence of Children, God or the Parents?—Has the Woman a right to say when she shall assume the office o...

3. LETTER III.—UNDESIRED MATERNITY: Crime against the

Child—Ante-Natal Claims of the Child—Bearing of the Ante-Natal History of a Child on its Post-Natal Character and Destiny—Whatever injuriously affects the Mother must injuriousl...

4. LETTER IV.—UNDESIRED MATERNITY: Crime against the Child as

affecting its Ante-Natal Education—The most intense and potent of all human relations—Man in three States—Ante-Natal Education, its bearing on the future Man or Woman, on Societ...

5. LETTER V.—THE WIFE’S APPEAL AND THE HUSBAND’S RESPONSE: The last

6. LETTER VI. WORDS FITLY SPOKEN, by one who speaks with Authority:

Passive Obedience of Wives to Husbands in regard to the relation that leads to Maternity—The Authority of Nature in regard to Maternity—The indignant protest of Humanity against...

7. LETTER VII. THE DREAD ALTERNATIVE: Ante-Natal Murder, or an

Maternity, the relation that leads to it, and the responsibilities, anxieties, and agonies generally connected with it,—the right of Woman to decide for herself when she shall a...

8. LETTER I.

I have read your letter with deep interest. Your inquiries respecting the mission of the sexes, and the government of your passional relations with your wife, seem right and pro...

9. LETTER II.

2. That woman, alone, has a right to say when, and under what circumstances, she shall assume the office of maternity, or subject herself to the _liability_ of becoming a mother.

10. LETTER III.

In my last, I showed, at some length, the crime of an undesired maternity against the _mother_; how it affects her mind towards the father of her child; how it tends to destroy...

11. LETTER IV.

In the preceding letter, I have shown how, and to what extent, a maternity, undesigned by the father and undesired by the mother, affects the organization, character and destiny...

12. LETTER V.

In the three preceding letters, I have endeavored to present to you the crime of an undesigned and undesired Maternity, especially in its bearing on the mother and the child. I...

13. LETTER VI.

Would you secure for yourself, your wife and your children, a pure and happy home? Of one thing, then, you must never lose sight. You now regard your wife as fitted to be your c...

14. LETTER VII.

The following experience of a woman, given in her own words, will make its appeal to all that is pure, manly and noble in manhood. It is the cry of anguish from woman’s riven he...