Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
PART I. THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
Chapter I.—Development of the Organism
Chapter II.—The Origin of Sex Differences
Chapter III.—Male Organic Defects
Chapter IV.—The Development of the Social Instincts and the Moral Sense
Chapter V.—The Supremacy of the Male
PART II. PREHISTORIC SOCIETY
Chapter VI.—Method of Investigation
Chapter VII.—The Relations of the Sexes among Early Mankind
Chapter VIII.—The Gens Women under Gentile xiiInstitutions
Chapter XIV.—The Origin of Marriage
Chapter X.—The Mother-Right
Chapter XI.—Theories to Explain Wife-Capture
PART III. EARLY HISTORIC SOCIETY
Chapter XII.—Early Historic Society Founded on the Gens
Chapter XIII.—Women in Early Historic Times
Chapter XIV.—Ancient Sparta
Chapter XV.—Athenian Women
Chapter XVI.—Roman Law, Roman Women, and Christianity
Chapter XVII.—The Renaissance
Chapter XVIII.—Conclusion
Index