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In Defense of Women

In Defense of Women

by H. L. Mencken

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Author
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Credits
Joseph Gallanar and David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
Subject
Sexism
Category
Text
eBook-No.
1270
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1270
Release Date
April 1, 1998
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN — by H. L. Mencken
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.Introduction
  4. 4.I. The Feminine Mind
  5. 5.1. The Maternal Instinct
  6. 6.2. Women’s Intelligence
  7. 7.3. The Masculine Bag of Tricks
  8. 8.4. Why Women Fail
  9. 9.5. The Thing Called Intuition
  10. 10.II. The War Between the Sexes
  11. 11.6. How Marriages are Arranged
  12. 12.7. The Feminine Attitude
  13. 13.8. The Male Beauty
  14. 14.9. Men as Aesthetes
  15. 15.10. The Process of Delusion
  16. 16.11. Biological Considerations
  17. 17.12. Honour
  18. 18.13. Women and the Emotions
  19. 19.14. Pseudo-Anaesthesia
  20. 20.15. Mythical Anthropophagi
  21. 21.16. A Conspiracy of Silence
  22. 22.III. Marriage
  23. 23.17. Fundamental Motives
  24. 24.18. The Process of Courtship
  25. 25.19. The Actual Husband
  26. 26.20. The Unattainable Ideal
  27. 27.21. The Effect on the Race
  28. 28.22. Compulsory Marriage
  29. 29.23. Extra-Legal Devices
  30. 30.24. Intermezzo on Monogamy
  31. 31.25. Late Marriages
  32. 32.26. Disparate Unions
  33. 33.27. The Charm of Mystery
  34. 34.28. Woman as Wife
  35. 35.29. Marriage and the Law
  36. 36.30. The Emancipated Housewife
  37. 37.IV. Woman Suffrage
  38. 38.31. The Crowning Victory
  39. 39.32. The Woman Voter
  40. 40.33. A Glance Into the Future
  41. 41.34. The Suffragette
  42. 42.35. A Mythical Dare-Devil
  43. 43.36. The Origin of a Delusion
  44. 44.37. Women as Martyrs
  45. 45.38. Pathological Effects
  46. 46.39. Women as Christians
  47. 47.40. Piety as a Social Habit
  48. 48.41. The Ethics of Women
  49. 49.V. The New Age
  50. 50.42. The Transvaluation of Values
  51. 51.43. The Lady of Joy
  52. 52.44. The Future of Marriage
  53. 53.45. Effects of the War
  54. 54.46. The Eternal Romance
  55. 55.47. Apologia in Conclusion

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