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CONTENTS
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CHAPTER XII
The Man's Woman: Womanly
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Two ideals—Motherly qualities do not attract men—Weakness and dependence are not motherly—Women distrust men's judgment of women—Women's wiles—Social value of women's qualities—Florence Nightingale—Women must combine and organise—Inarticulate women 126

CHAPTER XIII
The Woman's Woman: A Person
Ideal, Normal, and Average woman—Procrustes' bed—Motherhood not everything—Genius and motherhood—Scientific men constantly overlook the mind—Breeding versus environment 138

CHAPTER XIV
Sex-Antagonism: (1) Man's Part
No permanent opposition of sexes—Mr. Heape's theory—Primitive man and woman are opposed—Men and women not the "same" nor "equal"—Effect of luxury—Mr. Heape's nightmare: Men "brute beasts," maidens "waste products"—Love the reconciling force—Adaptation of the Human to environment—Women not all sex—The literature of abuse—Are men fit for judicial powers? 156