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Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes

Part 5 — INDEX

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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.

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