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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6

Subtitle Sex in Relation to Society
Language English
Published 1927
Word count 282,329
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ge--Marriage After Conception of Child--Phenomena in Germany, Anglo-Saxon Countries, Russia, etc.--The Status of Woman--The Historical Tendency Favoring Moral Equality of Women with Men--The Theory of the Matriarchate--Mother-Descent--Women in Babylonia--Egypt--Rome--The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries--The Historical Tendency Favoring Moral Inequality of Woman--The Ambiguous Influence of Christianity--Influence of Teutonic Custom and Feudalism--Chivalry--Woman in England--The Sale of Wives--The Vanishing Subjection of Woman--Inaptitude of the Modern Man to Domineer--The Growth of Moral Responsibility in Women--The Concomitant Development of Economic Independence--The Increase of Women Who Work--Invasion of the Modern Industrial Field by Women--In How Far This Is Socially Justifiable--The Sexual Responsibility of Women and Its Consequences--The Alleged Moral Inferiority of Women--The "Self-Sacrifice" of Women--Society Not Concerned with Sexual Relationships--Procreation the Sole Sexual Concern of the Stat