Chapter One THE PARAMOUNT NEED OF SEX KNOWLEDGE FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN Chapter Two THE FEMALE SEX ORGANS: THEIR ANATOMY SUBCHAPTER A THE INTERNAL SEX ORGANS SUBCHAPTER B THE EXTERNAL GENITALS SUBCHAPTER C THE PELVIS FOOTNOTES: Chapter Three THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FEMALE SEX ORGANS SUBCHAPTER A FUNCTION OF THE OVARIES SUBCHAPTER B FUNCTION OF THE OTHER GENITAL ORGANS SUBCHAPTER C THE ORGASM SUBCHAPTER D THE SECONDARY SEX CHARACTERS FOOTNOTES: Chapter Four THE SEX INSTINCT Chapter Five PUBERTY Chapter Six MENSTRUATION Chapter Seven ABNORMALITIES OF MENSTRUATION Chapter Eight THE HYGIENE OF MENSTRUATION Chapter Nine FECUNDATION OR FERTILIZATION FOOTNOTES: Chapter Ten PREGNANCY FOOTNOTES: Chapter Eleven THE DISORDERS OF PREGNANCY Chapter Twelve WHEN TO ENGAGE A PHYSICIAN Chapter Thirteen THE SIZE OF THE FETUS Chapter Fourteen THE AFTERBIRTH (PLACENTA) AND CORD Chapter Fifteen LACTATION OR NURSING Chapter Sixteen ABORTION AND MISCARRIAGE Chapter Seventeen PRENATAL CARE Chapter Eighteen THE MENOPAUSE OR CHANGE OF LIFE Change of Life in Men Chapter Nineteen THE HABIT OF MASTURBATION Chapter Twenty LEUCORRHEA—THE WHITES Chapter Twenty-one THE VENEREAL DISEASES FOOTNOTES: Chapter Twenty-two THE EXTENT OF VENEREAL DISEASE Chapter Twenty-three GONORRHEA Chapter Twenty-four VULVOVAGINITIS IN LITTLE GIRLS Chapter Twenty-five SYPHILIS Chancroids Chapter Twenty-six THE CURABILITY OF VENEREAL DISEASE Chapter Twenty-seven VENEREAL PROPHYLAXIS Chapter Twenty-eight ALCOHOL, SEX AND VENEREAL DISEASE Chapter Twenty-nine MARRIAGE AND GONORRHEA Chapter Thirty MARRIAGE AND SYPHILIS Chapter Thirty-one WHO MAY AND WHO MAY NOT MARRY Tuberculosis Heart Disease Cancer Exophthalmic Goiter (Basedow's Disease) Obesity Arteriosclerosis Gout Mumps Hemophilia, or Bleeders' Disease Anemia Epilepsy Hysteria Alcoholism Feeblemindedness Insanity Neuroses—Neurasthenia—Psychasthenia—Neuropathy—Psychopathy Drug Addiction or Narcotism Consanguineous Marriages Homosexuality Sadism Masochism Sexual Impotence Frigidity Excessive Libido in Men Excessive Libido in Women Harelip Myopia Astigmatism Baldness Criminality Pauperism Chapter Thirty-two BIRTH CONTROL OR THE LIMITATION OF OFFSPRING Contraceptive Measures A Few Everyday Cases FOOTNOTES: Chapter Thirty-three ADVICE TO GIRLS APPROACHING THE THRESHOLD OF WOMANHOOD Chapter Thirty-four ADVICE TO PARENTS OF UNFORTUNATE GIRLS Chapter Thirty-five SEXUAL RELATIONS DURING MENSTRUATION Chapter Thirty-six SEXUAL INTERCOURSE DURING PREGNANCY Chapter Thirty-seven SEXUAL INTERCOURSE FOR PROPAGATION ONLY Chapter Thirty-eight VAGINISMUS ADHERENT CLITORIS OR PHIMOSIS Chapter Thirty-nine STERILITY Chapter Forty THE HYMEN Chapter Forty-one IS THE ORGASM NECESSARY FOR IMPREGNATION? Chapter Forty-two FRIGIDITY IN WOMEN Chapter Forty-three ADVICE TO FRIGID WOMEN, PARTICULARLY WIVES Chapter Forty-four RAPE Chapter Forty-five THE SINGLE STANDARD OF SEXUAL MORALITY Disastrous Effects of Wrong Teachings Chapter Forty-six DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAN'S AND WOMAN'S SEX AND LOVE LIFE Choice Between Physical and Spiritual Love Love in Man Occupies Subordinate Place Polygamous Tendencies in Man Chapter Forty-seven MATERNAL IMPRESSIONS Chapter Forty-eight ADVICE TO THE MARRIED AND THOSE ABOUT TO BE Chapter Forty-nine A RATIONAL DIVORCE SYSTEM Outsiders in Domestic Tangles Chapter Fifty WHAT IS LOVE? FOOTNOTES: Chapter Fifty-one JEALOUSY AND HOW TO COMBAT IT Causes of Jealousy Chapter Fifty-two REMEDIES FOR JEALOUSY Chapter Fifty-three CONCLUDING WORDS

"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence." Byron Yes, love is a woman's whole life. Some modern women might object to this. They might say that this was true of the woman of the past, who was excluded from all other avenues of human activity. The woman of the present day has other interests besides those of Love. But I claim that this is true of only a small percentage of women; and in even this small minority of women, social, scientific and artistic activities cannot take the place of love; no matter how busy and successful these women may be, they will tell you if you enjoy their confidence that they are unhappy, if their love life is unsatisfactory. Nothing, nothing can fill the void made by the lack of love. The various activities may help to cover up the void, to protect it from strange eyes, they cannot fill it. For essentially woman is made for love. Not exclusively, but essentially, and a woman who has had no love in her life has been a failure. The few exceptions that may be mentioned only emphasize the rule.

Weisser (English, Adelphi U.) writes that her anthology is "for anyone who is interested in understanding the conflicted but powerful female urge to experience the pleasure and endure the pain of romantic love." In particular, she explores the collision of pervasive media images of romance with feminist values of independence and self-assertion. Several dozen historic and contemporary works of criticism, personal essays, and letters, by feminist and anti-feminist thinkers, consider changing images of romantic love and whether romance, fundamentally, weakens or empowers women. Contributors include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charlotte Bronte, Karen Horney, Simone de Beauvoir, Rita Mae Brown, bell hooks, Vivian Gornick, and Carolyn Heilbrun. c. Book News Inc.

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