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 |