University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
In Defense of Women

  
[title page]
  
CONTENTS
  
INTRODUCTION

collapse section1. 
THE FEMININE MINDI
 1. 
1. The Maternal Instinct
 2. 
2. Women's Intelligence
 3. 
3. The Masculine Bag of Tricks
 4. 
4. Why Women Fail
 5. 
5. The Thing Called Intuition
collapse section2. 
THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES II
 6. 
6. How Marriages are Arranged
 7. 
7. The Feminine Attitude
 8. 
8. The Male Beauty
 9. 
9. Men as Aesthetes
 10. 
10. The Process of Delusion
 11. 
11. Biological Considerations
 12. 
12. Honour
 13. 
13. Women and the Emotions
 14. 
14. Pseudo-Anaesthesia
 15. 
15. Mythical Anthropophagi
 16. 
16. A Conspiracy of Silence
collapse section3. 
MARRIAGE III
 17. 
17. Fundamental Motives
 18. 
18. The Process of Courtship
 19. 
19. The Actual Husband
 20. 
20. The Unattainable Ideal
 21. 
21. The Effect on the Race
 22. 
22. Compulsory Marriage
 23. 
23. Extra-Legal Devices
 24. 
24. Intermezzo on Monogamy
 25. 
25. Late Marriages
 26. 
26. Disparate Unions
 27. 
27. The Charm of Mystery
 28. 
28. Woman as Wife
 29. 
29. Marriage and the Law
 30. 
30. The Emancipated Housewife
collapse section4. 
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IV
 31. 
31. The Crowning Victory
 32. 
32. The Woman Voter
 33. 
33. A Glance Into the Future
 34. 
34. The Suffragette
 35. 
35. A Mythical Dare-Devil
 36. 
36. The Origin of a Delusion
 37. 
37. Women as Martyrs
 38. 
38. Pathological Effects
 39. 
39. Women as Christians
 40. 
40. Piety as a Social Habit
 41. 
41. The Ethics of Women
collapse section5. 
THE NEW AGE V
 42. 
42. The Transvaluation of Values
 43. 
43. The Lady of Joy
 44. 
44. The Future of Marriage
 45. 
45. Effects of the War
 46. 
46. The Eternal Romance
 47. 
47. Apologia in Conclusion

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
no previous section In Defense of Women
next section

THE FREE LANCE BOOKS VI.
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY H. L. MENCKEN

IN DEFENSE
OF WOMEN

By

H. L. MENCKEN

NEW YORK
ALFRED - A - KNOPF MCMXXIII
no previous section In Defense of Women
next section