Abnormality, 91 to 93, 121.
Affection, 42;
indispensable to true marriage, 194.
Age of nubility and consent, _see_ England, India.
American Indians, education of, 60.
Anatomy, feminine teaching of in India, 207.
Arrogance, masculine, 64, 67, _see_ Sex-bias.
Art, 40, 41, 216.
Asceticism, 41 167, 208.
Athletics, 74, 167, 215, _see_ Strength, Training, Military service.
Australian girl, 42.
Barbarism, 37, 54, 57.
“Baron and feme,” 149.
Bayadères, 46.
Beauty, 41, 49, 75, 213, 216.
Brain, 121 to 128, 203, 205;
developed by exercise, 121, 122, 161;
relative size, weight, and specific gravity of, 125, 126;
of celebrated men, 125;
no hard and fast distinction known, 127;
of ant, 128.
Brahminism, 71, 80, 82, 138.
Buddhism, 72, 138.
Capability, 49 to 53, 162, 164, 169, _see_ Jealousy.
Catholicism, status of wife, 73.
Cattle, wild; lactation, 93.
Chastity, 47, 138, 177, 209.
Childbearing, 78, 208;
excessive, 64, 66, 105, 176, 177;
future painless, 216.
Child-marriage, 81;
_see_ Marriage.
China, 58;
ethics of woman in, 67;
a Mandarin’s foreboding, 130;
a girl’s duty in, 140, _see_ Confucianism.
Christianity, 73, 140, 142.
Civism, 74, 154, 155.
“Clitheroe case,” 144.
Clothing; _see_ Dress.
Coal-pit women, 75.
Co-education; _see_ Education.
Community of effort, 155, 173, 182, 183, 194, 207, 209, 212, 218, 220.
Comtism, 138, _see_ Ethics.
Confucianism; 67, 71, 138.
Conjugal “rights,” in England, 98, 143 to 146;
in India, 85, 86, 95, 147.
Consent, age of, _see_ England, India.
Contagious Diseases Acts, 193.
Courtesanship, 45, 54;
_see_ Hetairai, Prostitution.
Cruelty, to woman, 37, 38, 58, 79, 83, 85, 102, 105;
to children, 61, 62, 83, 85, 86.
Curare (or “ourali”), 185.
Custody of Infants, 62.
Cycling, 170.
Demi-monde, 54.
Development, 36, 37, 41, 87, 88, 120, _see_ Evolution.
Disabilities, legal, 150 to 153.
Distortion of feet, 58.
Diseases, feminine, so-called, 100, 101.
Divorce, 73, 135, 148.
Dogma, 35, 67, _see_ Ethics, Religion.
Dower, old English, 98, 99.
Dress, 58, 75, 76, 169.
Duty, so-called, 67 to 74, 136 to 141;
true, 66, 155, _see_ Religion, “Sphere,” Community of effort.
Education, 50, 51;
political, 74, 160;
liberty of, 128, 142, 162, 164, 166, 197;
co-education, 164, 165, 171;
a liberal, 166.
Egypt, 44, 52.
Enfranchisement, 180, _see_ Franchise.
England, modern guardianship in, 62;
ancient, 99;
age of nubility and consent, 98, 99.
[By the law of England a girl is still marriageable at twelve and a
boy at fourteen years of age; though the “age of consent” to
intercourse not thus sanctioned has been recently raised to sixteen
years in the case of girls. In the above matters, and notably in that
of the marriageable age, England remains barbarously below most modern
legislatures, and is indeed in the disgraceful condition of being not
even on a level with China, in which country—as Mr. Byrant Barrett
points out, in his Introductory Discourse to the “Code Napoléon,” p.
66—“In females, it would appear, consummation is not allowable before
twelve,” while “the age for marriage in males is twenty complete.”
China and England are but slightly in advance of ancient India, where,
according to the precepts of Manu, as Mr. Barrett further shows, (p.
30), “The male of 24 years should marry the girl of 8 years of age;
the male of 30 the female of 12” (Ordinances of Manu, ch. 9, sec. 94).
Is not such conduct as this sufficient to involve as inevitable
consequences “unripe maternity and untimely birth,” together with all
their dire inherited miseries?]
Epicenity, 181, 182.
Equality of sexes, 43, 45, 49, 57, 79, 133, 134, 153, 154, 156, 162,
163, 194.
_See_ also the following:—
“But I hear you indignantly reject the boon of equality with such
creatures as men now are. With you I would equally elevate both sexes.
Really enlightened women, disdaining equally the submissive tricks of
the slave and the caprices of the despot, breathing freely only in the
air of the esteem of equals, and of mutual, unbought, uncommanded,
affection, would find it difficult to meet with associates worthy of
them in men as now formed, full of ignorance and vanity, priding
themselves on a _sexual_ superiority, entirely independent of any
merit, any superior qualities, or pretentions to them, claiming
respect from the strength of their arm, and the lordly faculty of
producing beards attached by nature to their chins! No: unworthy of,
as incapable of appreciating, the delight of the society of such
women, are the great majority of the existing race of men. The
pleasures of mere animal appetite, the pleasures of commanding (the
prettier and more helpless the slave, the greater these pleasures of
the brute), are the only pleasures which the majority of men seek from
women, are the only pleasures which their education and the
hypocritical system of morals, with which they have been necessarily
imbued, permit them to expect.... To wish for the enjoyment of the
higher pleasures of sympathy and communication of knowledge between
the sexes, heightened by that mutual grace and glow, that decorum and
mutual respect, to which the feeling of perfect, unrestrained equality
in the intercourse gives birth, a man must have heard of such
pleasures, must be able to conceive them, and must have an
organisation from nature or education, or both, capable of receiving
delight from them when presented to him. To enjoy these pleasures, to
which their other pleasures, a few excepted, are but the play of
children or brutes, the bulk of men want a sixth sense; they want the
capacity of feeling them, and of believing that such things are in
nature to be found. A mole cannot enjoy the “beauties and glories” of
the visible world; nor can brute men enjoy the intellectual and
sympathetic pleasures of equal intercourse with women, such as some
are, such as all might be. Real and comprehensive knowledge, physical
and moral, equally and impartially given by education, and by all
other means to both sexes, is the key to such higher enjoyments....
“Demand with mild but unshrinking firmness, perfect equality with men:
demand equal civil and criminal laws, an equal system of morals, and,
as indispensable to these, equal political laws, to afford you an
equal chance of happiness with men, from the development and exercise
of your faculties.”
—William Thompson (“Appeal of One Half the Human Race,” 1825, pp. xii,
195).
Ethics, 74, 147, 173, 177, 186.
[The impotent and contradictory schemes of ethics which philosophers
or schoolmen, ancient and modern, have successively evolved, have been
but resultants of “unisexual wit.” With brilliant exceptions in Plato,
Kant, and Mill, vainly may the various codes be searched for any
suggestion of the identity, individuality, and equality, of woman. For
though the philosophy of latter-day ethicists rightly disdains to
reiterate or to countenance the factitious scriptural dogmas and
imprecations declaratory or explanatory of woman’s unequal and
subjugated condition, yet a parallel subjection and inferiority in her
nature is still tacitly assumed, and on occasion traded upon, by these
same ethicists; no counsel or consent of her own intelligence being
asked, or disavowal recked of, in such propositions as, _e.g._, the
“utilitarian” theses concerning her enounced by Archdeacon Paley or
Mr. Jeremy Bentham;—the nominally “goddess,” but virtually “slave,”
status assigned to her by M. Auguste Comte;—or the “due” amount of
child-bearing postulated as prior to all “normally feminine mental
energy” in her, by Mr. Herbert Spencer. As the bane of all theologies
has been the implicated degradation and subserviency of womanhood to
the unjustly favoured male sex, so the vital defect in the plans of
ethics is this irrational disregard for the personality and interests
of “one half the human race,”—this ignoring or negation of woman’s
equal claim with man to consideration, position, and action, in all
that relates to humanity, ethics included. At present the general
masculine sex-bias, or selfishness, refuses to women the wisest and
noblest a faculty in legislation conceded to even the meanest men; and
justice and injustice, pessimism and optimism, struggle together
blindly and helplessly in the dark. The true Ethic still awaits for
its formulation the assistance and the inspiration of the intellect of
woman equal and free: no other way can it be arrived at.]
Evolution, 39, 40, 41, 78, 87, 88, 107, 122, 173, 180, 208, 210, 211,
218, 220, 222;
_see_ Development.
Excess, 82, 100, 101, 105.
Father, legal “rights” and duties of, 62.
Feme; _see_ Baron.
Feudality, 131;
female wards, 98, 99.
Fictility, 86 to 89, 109, 119, 120;
_see_ Evolution.
Franchise, woman’s, 150 to 155.
French law, 197;
women students of, 201, 202.
Future of woman and humanity; forecasts or counsels concerning, by—
Balzac, 210.
Bastian, 208.
Bithell, 110.
Blake, 159, 210, 214.
Bonavia, 162.
Buckle, 103, 211, 212.
Cobbe, 112.
Dixie, 174.
Dodel-Port, 124.
Farnham, 104, 111, 206, 207, 214.
Garrison, 171.
Geddes and Thomson, 74, 78, 173.
Huxley, 110, 166, 167, 197.
Jefferies, 103, 108, 182, 213, 216.
Kant, 194.
Lang, 179.
Leland, 216.
Maxwell, 210.
Mill, 43, 79, 162.
Moll, 119.
Pfeiffer, 160.
Richardson, 216.
Ruskin, 108, 128.
Schreiner, 111.
Spencer, 87.
Tennyson, 173, 220.
Tyndall, 89.
Wallace, 180, 208.
Weill, 112.
Whitman, 154, 216, 220.
Winslow, 106.
Wolstenholme Elmy, 155.
Wordsworth, 217, 219.
Girlhood, 81, 128, 163, 197.
Graduates, women, _see_ University.
Greece, 44 to 47;
culture, 216.
Guardianship, 62;
ancient, 99.
Heredity, 87 to 89, 161, 178;
in man, 92, _see_ Development, Evolution.
Heroines of drama, 52, 78.
Hetairai, 45, 46, 48, 53;
_see_ Courtesanship, Prostitution.
Human selection, 174, 180.
Humanity, _see_ Future.
Husband and wife, _see_ Baron and feme, Clitheroe Case, Married Women’s
property;
inequality of right, _see_ Father, Wife, Conjugal “rights”;
different standard of morality between, _see_ Divorce.
Hypnotism, 109, 119;
suggestion, 109.
Ignorance, 89, 90.
Imagination, cultivation of, 206, 218;
future of, 210, 212.
Immaturity, 81, 82;
_see_ Maturity.
Improvidence, 177.
India, 71;
early marriage in, 80, 81, 93 to 98;
effects of, 82, 194;
age of consent in, 94;
courtesanship, 46, 53, 138;
female teaching, 46, 71, 207;
women’s medical education, 207;
code of Manu, 67, 133;
_see_ England.
Individuality, _see_ Selfdom.
Infant, custody of, 62;
feudal wardship, 99.
Infanticide, 60, 61.
Intellect, woman’s quickness of, 50, 51, 65, 104, _see_ Brain,
Capability, Jealousy.
Intemperance, 105, 106, 176, 177.
Intuition, 65, 103, 104, 186.
Japan, woman in, 69, 138.
Jealousy, masculine, 113, 195 to 203;
rebuked, 198, _see_ Sex-bias.
Judaism, 100, 102, 139.
Justice, 43, 108, 179.
Knowledge, 53, 56, 90, 211, 212;
is love, 218.
Language, 42.
Law, old, 99, 143;
study of by women, 200;
French, 201;
civil, _see_ Franchise, Husband, Wife;
divine, _see_ Religion.
Legal practitioners, female, _see_ Law.
Legalised abortion, 105.
Lieutenant “Karl,” 77.
Limitation of offspring, _see_ Neo-Malthusianism.
Love, 41, 42, 43, 70, 71, 78, 177, 193, 218, 219, 221;
Woman’s, 208;
“creation’s final law,” 173, 221;
origin of all worthy thought, 193.
Lust, 41.
Magna Charta, 130.
Mahomedanism, 61, 71, 94.
Malthusianism, 173 to 178.
Manhood, 167, 179.
Marriage, 37, 43, 44, 45, 78, 90, 134, 180, 209;
early, in England, 98;
in Turkey, 61, _see_ India.
Married Women’s Property, 62, 149.
[The _Married Women’s Property Act_, 1882, in the event of no specific
marriage contract to the contrary between the parties, retains to any
woman married since Dec. 31st, 1882, the possession, control, and
disposal of her own property and earnings, precisely as if she still
remained a single woman (_feme sole_); it further secures to every
wife (whether married before that date or afterwards), the right to
her own earnings, and various other property rights, entirely
independent of her husband’s control.]
Maternity, 59, 64, 91, 106, 183, 208, 209;
artistic or purposed, 214;
painless future, 216.
Maturity, 90, 93, 99, 178.
Medical practitioners, evil methods of some, 101, 105, 106, _see_
Vivisection.
Medical women, 113 to 116;
duty of, 90, 106, 115, 116, 192, 204.
Menstruation, 91;
abnormal and acquired habit, 88, 91, 92, 104;
pathological incident, not physiological, 92, 104, 116;
developed into heredity, not inherent, 88, 104;
not nubility, 93;
fostering of, 104, 120;
ignorance concerning, 89, 91, 117, 118;
reproach of, 102;
Scriptural definitions and opprobrium, 100, 102;
futile explanations of, 104;
“plethora” theory, 123;
some evils of, 91, 92, 100, 101, 108;
remediable, 108, 110, 116, 117, 120;
immunity from, 92, 117;
recent diminution of, 112, 123, 215.
Menorrhagia, 101.
Mental power;
_see_ Capability, Ethics, Intellect, Jealousy.