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Title: Woman and Womanhood
A Search for Principles

Author: C. W. Saleeby

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WOMAN AND WOMANHOOD

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BY DR. C. W. SALEEBY

WOMAN AND WOMANHOOD
HEALTH, STRENGTH AND HAPPINESS
THE CYCLE OF LIFE
EVOLUTION: THE MASTER KEY
WORRY: THE DISEASE OF THE AGE
THE CONQUEST OF CANCER: A PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
PARENTHOOD AND RACE CULTURE

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WOMAN AND WOMANHOOD

A SEARCH FOR PRINCIPLES

by
C. W. SALEEBY
M.D., F.R.S.E., Ch.B., F.Z.S.

Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh and formerly
Resident Physician Edinburgh Maternity Hospital;
Vice-President Divorce Law Reform Union; Member of the
Royal Institution and of Council of the Sociological Society.

MITCHELL KENNERLEY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
MCMXI

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Copyright 1911 by
Mitchell Kennerley

Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co.
East Twenty-fourth Street
New York

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CONTENTS

PAGE
I. FIRST PRINCIPLES 1
II. THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME 34
III. THE PURPOSE OF WOMANHOOD 52
IV. THE LAW OF CONSERVATION 64
V. THE DETERMINATION OF SEX 72
VI. MENDELISM AND WOMANHOOD 81
VII. BEFORE WOMANHOOD 92
VIII. THE PHYSICAL TRAINING OF GIRLS 99
IX. THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN 128
X. THE PRICE OF PRUDERY 132
XI. EDUCATION FOR MOTHERHOOD 151
XII. THE MATERNAL INSTINCT 163
XIII. CHOOSING THE FATHERS OF THE FU