The Truth About Woman

by C. Gasquoine Hartley

INDEX

• A
• Adoption of children, [205], [358]
• Adultery, [279], [341]
• —— among primitive peoples, [132], [136], [148], [149], [160], [165]
• —— in Babylon, [206]
• —— in Egypt, [189], [191]
• —— in Greece, [218], [219-220]
• —— in Rome, [230], [238]
• Æschines, his dialogue on Aspasia, [224-225]
• Affectability of women, [296], [308-309], [317]
• Africa, the maternal family in, [162-164]
• —— power of Royal Princesses in, [161-162]
• Alladians of Ivory Coast, [164]
• Amazons, [228]
• Ambel-anak marriage, [152]
• American Indians. See Iroquois
• Amphibians, [56]
• Animals, courtship and love among, [77], [78-79], [80], [81], [82], [88-99]
• —— the family among, [78], [102], [103]
• —— varied forms of the sexual association among, [55], [82], [87-88], [111], [113]
• —— variation in parental care of offspring among, [57], [80], [82], [108-111]
• Arabs, divorce among the ancient, [145], [154]
• —— traces of the mother-age among the, [153-154]
• Argus pheasant, courtship of, [97]
• Arrogance of modern woman, [270], [305], [326], [362]
• Art in relation to the sexual impulse, [324]
• Artistic impulse in women, [308-314]
• Arts, woman's entrance into the, [314-317]
• Asceticism among early Christians, [239], [323-324]
• —— later change in, [325-326]
• —— evils of, [324], [327]
• —— value of, [324]
• Ascetics' attitude towards sexual love, [327]
• Asexual reproduction, [36-39]
• Aspasia, [224-226]
• Athens. See Greece
• Australia, communal marriage in, [146-147]
• Australians, West, [122]
  
• B
• Babylon, position of women in ancient, [201-210]
• —— marriage and divorce in, [204-207]
• —— traces of the mother-age in, [201-202]
• —— trade in, [207-210]
• Bachofen on the mother-age, [142]
• Bambala tribe, [165]
• Basanga tribe, [165]
• Basques, [158]
• Basso Komo tribe, [165]
• Bastardy laws, [348-349]
• Bavili tribe, [163]
• Beauty-tests, [91], [95], [98-100], [104], [105]
• Beena marriage, [153]
• Bees, [43] et seq., [59]
• Biology, importance of, [13], [14], [33-35]
• Birds, love amongst, [59], [87], [91], [111], [114]
• Birds, amorous preference of females, [111]
• —— æsthetic perception of, [88], [89]
• —— family amongst, [59], [87], [88], [102-103], [107], [110], [113]
• —— female superiority amongst, [58], [90], [95], [105], [249]
• —— love battles [87], [90]
• —— love dances, parades and songs, [91], [92-99]
• —— monogamy amongst, [91]
• —— secondary sexual characters of, [88], [92], [100-101], [104] et seq.
• —— sex equality amongst, [59], [90], [105] et seq., [249]
• Bloch, Iwan, on promiscuity, [120] (note)
• —— on the discoveries of M. Currie, [300]
• —— on woman's influence on the arts, [307]
• Borneo native tribes, [123]
• Botocudos tribe, [122]
• Brain, sexual differences in, [276]
• Bride-price, [154] (note), [165], [173], [183], [204], [229]
• Britain, traces of the mother-age in, [127]
• Budding, [38]
• Bücher, Karl, on woman's early poetic activity, [306]
• Burma, high status of women in, [156-157]
• —— marriage system and divorce in, [157-158]
  
• C
• Canon law, [240], [344], [354]
• Canute; his marriage as evidence of mother-right, [127]
• Celibacy, [324], [326], [328], [341], [382]
• Cell-division, [35-39]
• Certificate of health before marriage, [345]
• Ceylon, polyandry in, [150]
• Chastity, [165], [171], [189], [206], [219], [223], [226], [255], [323], [324], [326], [327-328], [342], [373-374]
• —— as the foundation of marriage, [334], [338]
• Child, relation to the mother, [23], [27], [103], [168], [170]
• —— rights of the, [9], [17], [255], [256-258], [340], [342], [345-346], [352], [355]
• Child, need of two parents, [42], [95], [111], [350], [358]
• China, traces of mother-age in, [159]
• Christianity, its influence on women, [234], [267], [317-328]
• —— in connection with marriage and divorce, [239], [240], [344], [354]
• Cirripedes, complemental males among the, [52]
• Civilisation and sex, [113], [265-266]
• Clandestine transitory loves, [341]
• Clothing; effect of, on women, [277], [303-304]
• Cocotte, the, [253], [303]
• Concubinage, [189-191], [205], [230]
• Connection between bodily and spiritual impulses, [323-324], [326]
• Contract marriage. See Marriage
• Conventional lies of the present day, [254] et seq., [258-261], [278], [281]
• Co-operation among animals, [82], [102], [111]
• Coquetry, [254], [255], [258]
• Courtship: its importance, [100-111], [252], [254-256]
• Cruelty in relation to sex, [67], [266-267], [327]
  
• D
• Darwin on sexual selection, [100-101]
• Demi-monde, [366]
• Differentiation between the sexes: its importance, [101], [248-249], [257], [261-263], [268], [273-276], [284], [290], [293], [295-297]
• Diotima, [223]
• Disease and marriage, [345], [355], [360-361]
• Disinclination for marriage, [61-63], [225-226], [267], [268-270], [335], [359]
• Disproportion in numbers between the sexes, [278]
• Divorce among primitive peoples, [132], [137], [148], [160]
• —— in Babylon, [205-207]
• —— in Burma, [157-158]
• —— in Egypt, [191-192], [356]
• —— in Greece, [220]
• —— in Rome, [233], [356]
• —— attitude of Church and State towards, [354]
• —— causes for, [353], [354] et seq.
• Divorce by mutual consent, [356], [358]
• —— importance of, for women, [356], [359]
• —— psychical, [355]
• —— reform of, [355-356]
• Donaldson on high character of Roman women, [239]
• Duplex sexual morality, [171], [206], [219], [226], [357]
  
• E
• Economic factor in marriage, [171], [215-216], [253], [282], [342-343], [345], [346-347]
• —— —— in prostitution, [282], [362-363], [370]
• —— dependence of women, [23-24], [253], [264], [280], [342]
• Egg-cell. See Ovum
• Egoism of modern woman, [270], [305], [335], [362], [365], [380-381]
• Egypt, position of women in ancient, [179-201]
• —— concubinage in, [189-191]
• —— divorce in, [191-192]
• —— family affection in, [192-193], [194-197]
• —— marriage contracts in, [182-185], [186-191]
• —— polygamy in, [192]
• —— traces of the mother-age in, [185-186]
• Ellis, Havelock, on sexual differences, [21]
• —— on the position of women in Rome, [234]
• —— on the artistic impulse in women, [297]
• —— on religious sexual perception, [320]
• Emancipation of woman, [4-8]
• Emma, her marriage with Canute, [127]
• Emotivity of women, [309], [318]
• Enfranchisement of women, [291], [362], [379], [380]
• Ennoblement of love, [347-348], [351-352], [383]
• Environment, influences of, [15], [17], [21], [273], [299-301], [313]
• Erotic element in religion, [317], [319-326]
• Ethelbald, King of Kent, his marriage as evidence of mother-right, [127]
• Ethelbald, King of W. Saxons, his marriage as evidence of mother-right, [127]
• Eugenics, [18-19], [165], [218], [283], [345-346], [350], [355]
• Euripides on women, [227]
• Exchange of wives among primitive peoples, [132], [166], [170]
• —— —— in Sparta, [218]
  
• F
• Facial expression and sex, [311-312]
• Factory workers, condition of, [281-283], [287-288], [362-363]
• Fairy stories, connection with mother-rights, [121], [126]
• Family, among animals. See Birds and Animals
• —— —— primitive peoples. See Mother-age
• —— —— ancient civilisation. See Egypt, Babylon, Greece and Rome
• Fanti of the Gold Coast, [163]
• Father in relation to the family, [125], [164-167], [169], [171-175], [257]
• Father-right. See Mother-age
• Fear of love in women, [264], [270], [322], [323], [325-326], [369-370], [373-374], [382]
• Female, origin of, [41-42]
• Fertilisation, [40], [51], [53], [56], [60], [77]
• Festivals, connection with mother-right, [121]
• Festivals, religious, [320], [372]
• Finery, love of, in women, [303], [322], [365], [370]
• Fishes, love among, [78]
• —— parental care among, [57-58]
• —— sex differences among, [57], [78-79]
• Flirtation. See Coquetry
• Freedom to love for women, [279]
• Freedom to work for women, [283]
• Free-love, a criticism of, [349-350]
• Free-marriage. See Marriage
• Frigidity, sexual, [260], [269-270], [369]
• —— —— as a cause of prostitution, [368-370], [371]
• Fuegians, [122]
• Future of woman, [377-385]
  
• G
• Gallinaceæ, [90], [265]
• Galton's Law of Inheritance, [17]
• Garos tribe, [147]
• Geddes and Tompson on the anabolic character of the female, [54] (note)
• Genius in relation to woman, [301-317]
• Ghasiyas tribe, [148]
• Goddesses in forefront of early religions, [198], [222]
• Greece, position of women in ancient, [210-227]
• —— Athens, subjection of women in, [216], [219-223], [265]
• —— —— divorce in, [220]
• —— —— Hetairæ, [222-226], [265]
• —— —— marriage and sale of bride, [220-221]
• —— —— movement of revolt in, [226-227]
• —— Homeric women, freedom of, [212-215]
• —— Spartan women, freedom of, [216-219]
• —— State regulation of love, [217-218]
• —— traces of the mother-age in, [211] (note), [213], [219], [222]
• Group-marriage. See Marriage
• Growth and reproduction. See Reproduction
• Gynæcocracy. See Mother-age
  
• H
• Haeckel on reproduction, [17], [35]
• Hammurabi. See Babylon, marriage and divorce
• Hartland on mother-right, [126] (note)
• Hassanyeh arabs, [166-167]
• Health and women, [157], [168-169], [197], [215], [217], [284-286]
• Health in relation to marriage. See Disease
• Hebrews, traces of the mother-age among the ancient, [128-130]
• Hellenic love, [265]
• Heredity, importance of, [17-20]
• Hermaphroditism, [76-77]
• Hindu mountaineers, [149]
• Hobhouse, on the Egyptian marriage contracts, [183] (note)
• Hobhouse, on the high character of Roman women, [139]
• Hopis. See Pueblos
• Hunger and love, [75], [101]
  
• I
• Illegitimacy, [160], [190], [205], [218], [342], [347], [348-349]
• Impurity, [267], [323-327]
• India, the maternal family in, [147-148]
• Individual responsibility in love, [257], [351-353], [358-359]
• Infantile mortality, [348], [378]
• Inferiority of the female, [12], [20], [23], [25], [47-49], [53-55]
• —— of the male, [44], [49-53], [56], [57-58], [65-67], [104] et seq.
• Insects, love of, [82]
• Instinct in woman, [296-297]
• Intellect in woman. See Mind
• Intellectual activity and sex, [324], [325-326]
• Intellectuals among women, [61-63], [268-270], [325-326]
• Ireland, traces of mother-age in ancient, [128]
• Iroquois, [131-135], [141-142]
• —— forms of marriage among, [132], [134]
• —— high status of women among, [132], [133], [134], [141-142]
• —— maternal family among, [131-132], [134]
• —— tribal customs among, [131], [133], [134-135]
  
• J
• Japan, traces of the maternal family in, [158-159]
• Judith, her marriage with Ethelbald, [127]
  
• K
• Kammalaus, polyandry among, [149]
• Kasias tribes of India, [147]
• Key, Ellen, on the spiritual character of woman's love, [258]
• —— on free-love, [349]
  
• L
• Labour and women, [278-292]
• —— division of, between the sexes, [22-24], [280]
• Labour of primitive women, [168-169], [264]
• —— of Spanish women, [284-286]
• —— significance of, [301-302], [303-304], [379]
• —— sweated workers, [281-283]
• —— woman's exemption from, [23], [314]
• Lais, [224]
• Lending wives, [218]
• Leontium, [224]
• Lie of marriage, [341]
• Limit of growth, [36]
• Loango, [163]
• Love, comparison between animal and human, [119-121]
• —— comparison between woman's love and man's, [260], [373-374]
• —— elementary phenomena of, [75]
• —— purposes of the individual and of the race in relation to, [121], [338-340]
• —— significance and ennoblement of, [99-100], [322], [327-328], [352], [369], [374], [382], [383]
• —— wastage of, [322], [327], [373], [340]
• Love and beauty, [100]
• Love and marriage. See Marriage
• Love-free. See Free-love
• Love's choice. See Sexual selection
• Lust in relation to love, [340], [341], [372]
• —— theological conception of, [324] et seq.
• Lycurgus, laws of, [217-218]
  
• M
• Madagascar, traces of the mother-age in, [160-161]
• Maine, Sir Henry, on the Roman marriage law, [239-240]
• Malays of Sumatra, [152-153]
• Male, origin of the, [42], [49], [52]
• Male-cell. See Spermatozoon
• Male-force, assertion of, [75], [104], [108], [124], [125], [164], [172], [247]
• Male-tyranny, mistaken view of, [24], [158], [172-173], [174]
• Mammals, love among the. See Animals.
• Man as the helper of woman, [309], [350], [384]
• Man as the slave of woman, [67], [267], [327]
• Mariana Islands, [154-155]
• Marriage, [331-352], [360]
• —— certificates for, [345]
• —— coercive, [332], [335], [341], [353], [359]
• —— economic factor in, [195-196], [256], [342-343], [345], [347]
• —— the ideal, [340], [349], [351], [352]
• —— individual end of, [338-340]
• —— history of, [343-345]
• —— love an essential part of, [350-352], [353-354], [358]
• —— objects of, [331-332], [334]
• —— racial end of, [334], [337-339], [354]
• —— reform of, [331-333], [335-336], [351-352], [353], [359]
• —— among animals. See Animals
• —— customs among primitive peoples. See Mother-age
• —— in relation to practical morality, [335-336], [337-338], [347-348], [349-350], [354]
• —— in relation to prostitution, [341-342], [359-361], [369], [371], [374]
• Maternal instinct, [61], [261] et seq.
• —— sacrifice, [263] et seq.
• Matriarchal family among bees, [62]
• Matriarchy. See Mother-age
• Maupassant on woman, [327]
• Memory, sexual differences in, [294-295]
• Men, emancipation of: this must be done by women, [269], [292]
• Menomini Indians, [145]
• Mental mobility of woman, [311]
• Mind, sexual differences in, [292-317]
• Mis-differentiation of women, [268] et seq.
• Misogany, [267]
• Monogamy, [340-341], [352-353]
• —— among animals and birds. See Animals and Birds
• Moral codes, [343-344], [353]
• Morality, ideal, [335], [350], [352]
• —— practical, [331], [335-336], [351-352]
• —— traditional, [335], [352]
• Mother-age, [119-175]
• —— evidence in support of the, [121-122], [143-146]
• —— periods of the, [122-125]
• —— traces among civilised peoples of, [125], [130], [158-159], [185], [201-202], [211], [228]
• Mother-age, marriage and courtship customs during, [132], [135-137], [138], [139], [145], [147-148], [149], [151], [153], [154], [165]
• —— beginnings of marriage, visiting by night, [159], [169]
• —— capture-marriage, [148], [172]
• —— exchange-marriage, [166], [170], [173]
• —— group-marriage, [124], [146], [151] (note), [169]
• —— purchase-marriage, [155], [165], [166], [173]
• —— monogamy, [137], [138], [139]
• —— polyandry, [149-151]
• —— position of the mother, [122], [123], [124], [127], [131-132], [133], [136], [137], [139-146], [148], [153], [154], [163], [168-171], [173-174]
• —— —— father, [124], [125], [132], [134], [137], [138], [144], [151], [152], [155], [163], [169], [171]
• —— —— maternal uncle, [124], [132], [140], [144], [152], [163], [164], [173]
• —— —— children, [134], [138], [147], [149], [152], [164], [165]
• —— transition to father-right, [134], [147], [148], [155], [168]
• —— establishment of father-right, [147], [164] et seq., [171-174]
• Motherhood, endowment of, [62], [348]
• —— free, [265], [279]
• —— importance of, [7], [9], [27], [255], [265], [312], [314]
• —— responsibility of, [18-19], [257], [258], [263], [283], [351-352], [358], [381-382]
• Mother-right united with father-right, [175], [187]
• Music and women, [300-301], [306-308]
• Musquakies. See Iroquois
  
• N
• Nature or inheritance, [15-19], [25], [273], [309]
• Nâyars of Malabar, [151-152]
• Need for sexual variety among animals, [111-112], [121], [251]
• —— —— men, [112], [121], [371-373]
• Nurture or environment, [15-17], [19-20], [273], [309]
• Nutrition and reproduction, [17], [35]
• —— connection with sex, [41-44]
  
• O
• Obstetric frog, [80]
• Octopus, courtship of the, [81]
• One-sexed world, the idea of a, [268]
• Orgy, the use of the, [319-320], [372]
• Ostrich, love-dances of the, [94]
• Ovum, [36], [39], [53], [250]
  
• P
• Parasitic females, [53-55]
• —— males, [51-53], [77]
• Paradise bird of New Guinea, [89]
• Parenthood. See Motherhood
• Parthenogenesis, [49]
• Passion, importance of, in woman, [319], [326], [370], [374]
• Passivity, alleged, of female, [65-69], [250-253]
• Patriarchal subjection of women, [10], [22], [23-24], [173], [204], [212], [215], [219-221], [226], [229], [256], [264-265], [280]
• Patriarchy. See Father-right under Mother-age
• Pearson, Karl, on the mother-age, [126-127] (note)
• —— on variability in women, [299]
• Pericles, [223], [224]
• Periodicity of woman in relation to work, [312-313]
• Phalaropes, reversal of the rôle of the sexes among, [107], [249], [265]
• Picts, traces of the mother-age among, [127]
• Pit-brow women, [284]
• Plants, sex in, [50] (note)
• Plato on women, [226]
• Polyandry, [149-154]
• Polygamy, [192], [204], [230], [279]
• Position of the sexes, early. See Origin of the sexes
• Promiscuity, belief in an early period of, [120] (note), [121]
• Primitive human love, [119-121]
• Primitive woman. See Mother-age
• Prostitutes, [342], [360], [364-368]
• Prostitution, [341], [359-374]
• —— causes of, [282-283], [362-365], [368-371], [373-374]
• Prostitution, remedies for, [363-364], [369], [371], [374]
• Protozoa, [37] et seq.
• Pueblos tribes, [137-139]
• Purity, the ideal of, for women, [373-374]
  
• R
• Race, the, its significance in relation to woman, [27], [44], [63], [257], [283], [289], [290], [354], [383-385]
• Re-birth of woman, [20], [27], [63], [257], [283], [290], [378], [385]
• Religion and sexuality, [317], [319-323]
• —— and women, [157], [317-328]
• Reproduction, theory of. See Origin of Sex
• Reproductive cells. See Ovum and Spermatozoon
• Reptiles, love amongst, [79]
• Responsibility in the sexual relationships. See Love, ennoblement of
• Revolution in the position of woman, [1-2], [4], [7-9], [27], [280], [379-380], [382]
• Revolutionary forces, [280], [281], [291]
• Rome, position of women in, [227-242]
• —— divorce by consent in, [233]
• —— evolution of marriage in, [229-233]
• —— high status of women in later periods in, [234-238]
• —— influence of Christianity on position of women in, [235], [239-240]
• —— licentiousness, alleged in, [238-239]
• —— traces of the mother-age in, [228]
  
• S
• Sai. See Pueblos
• Santál tribes, [148]
• Sappho, [217], [301]
• Schopenhauer on woman, [9], [267]
• Sea-horse, parental care of males among, [80]
• Secondary sexual characters, [12], [48], [78] et seq., [88] et seq., [104] et seq., [114], [248-256], [261-263], [265], [268], [273-278], [292] et seq.
• Seduction, [364-365]
• Senecas. See Iroquois
• Sense of shame in woman, [255], [326]
• Sensibility of woman, [309] et seq.
• Seri, marriage customs of, [135-136]
• Sex, origin of, [36], [41-43]
• —— primary office of, [39-40], [73-74]
• —— significance of, [75], [99-102], [114]
• Sex-elements, early separation of, [76]
• Sex-hatred, evils of, [24], [67], [266-267], [268-269], [288-289], [291], [326-327], [380-381]
• Sex-hunger, [75], [99]
• Sex-relationships assume different forms to suit varying conditions of life, [103], [107], [111-113]
• Sex-victims, [55]
• Sexes, early position of, [55], [73] et seq., [249-250]
• Sexual abstinence. See Chastity
• —— antipathy, [215], [265], [266-267]
• —— attraction, [215], [266]
• —— crimes, [34], [65], [87], [112], [347]
• —— instincts, imperious action of, [33-34], [59], [67], [73], [75], [88] et seq., [99], [101], [254], [261], [319], [326], [372]
• —— reproduction. See Reproduction
• —— selection, [75], [100] et seq., [104] et seq., [114], [250], [254], [262]
• Shaw, G.B., on woman's right of selection in love, [65-66], [253]
• —— on economic factor in prostitution, [362-363]
• Simcox on the Egyptians, [193] (note), [195], [202]
• Slugs, love of, [77]
• Snails, love organ of, [77]
• Socrates on love, [223]
• Spain, position of women in, [286-287]
• Sparta. See Greece
• Spermatozoon, [36], [49], [53], [251]
• Spider, courtship of the, [64] et seq.
• Spores, [36]
• Stickleback, habits of, [80]
• —— paternal care of offspring among, [80]
• Sterility, sin of, [378-379]
• Structural modifications to adapt the sexes to different modes of life, [107]
• Suffrage, struggle for, [9], [379-380], [382-383]
• Superiority of the female, [56-58], [66-68], [73], [90], [103], [124], [125], [249], [267], [383-384]
• Superiority of the male, [10], [12-13], [23-24], [47-48], [104], [249]
• Surinam toad, [81]
  
• T
• Tadpoles, [43], [77]
• Talent, sexual differences in, [292] et seq.
• Thargalia, [223]
• Theodota, [223]
• Thibet, polyandry in, [150]
• Third-sex, [269-270]
• Thomas on the sexual differences, [274], [304]
• Thomson, J.A., on the difference of variability in men and women, [298-299]
• Thucydides on the duty of women, [223]
• Todas tribe, [149]
• Transition, present period of, for women, [11], [263-264], [267], [280-281], [288], [289-290], [314-317], [325], [333], [379], [381], [384]
• Tyrant bird, love calls of, [96]
  
• U
• Ulpian, the jurist, on a double standard of morality for the sexes, [240]
• Union, free. See Free-love
• Use of male to female, [40], [44], [103], [250], [309], [384]
  
• V
• Variation in the two sexes, [297-300]
• Variety. See Need for Sexual Variety
• Virgin birth, stories of, [126], [202], [228] (note)
• Virginity, [171], [189], [344]
• Visions, sexual, [320-321], [323]
• Volvox, [41-42]
  
• W
• Wallace on sexual selection, [100]
• Wamoima tribe, [163]
• Ward, Lester, theory of gynæocracy, [49], [50] (note), [107], [108]
• Wayao and Mang'anja tribes, [165]
• Weininger on woman, [26], [267]
• Wells, H.G., on marriage, [305]
• —— on love and religion, [322]
• Wild duck, love of a, [111-112], [250]
• Witchcraft, connection with mother-rights, [127] (note)
• Woman and man, differences between, [9], [12], [14], [16], [21], [47], [199-201], [247] et seq., [273] et seq., [292] et seq.; [319-320], [322], [326]
• Woman and sexuality, [26], [267], [269], [304], [325], [327]
• Woman and work. See Labour
• Woman's dependence on man, [264], [269], [290], [381]
• —— emancipation, [8], [24], [269], [279], [289-290], [302], [305], [316], [379] et seq.
• —— influence, [10], [266]
• —— place in the sexual relationship, [251], [261-262], [264-265], [267], [270], [279-280], [383-384]
• —— responsibility, [258], [263-264], [283], [291-292], [351-352], [360] et seq., [374], [381] et seq.
• —— right of selection in love, [65] et seq., [252-256], [309]
• Wyandots. See Iroquois
  
• X
• Xenophon's ideal wife, [223]
  
• Z
• Zuñi Indians. See Pueblos

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