f New Guinea, 89

Parenthood. _See_ Motherhood

Parthenogenesis, 49

Passion, importance of, in woman, 319, 326, 370, 374

Passivity, alleged, of female, 65-69, 250-253

Patriarchal subjection of women, 10, 22, 23-24, 173, 204, 212, 215,
219-221, 226, 229, 256, 264-265, 280

Patriarchy. _See_ Father-right under Mother-age

Pearson, Karl, on the mother-age, 126-127 (_note_)
---- on variability in women, 299

Pericles, 223, 224

Periodicity of woman in relation to work, 312-313

Phalaropes, reversal of the role of the sexes among, 107, 249, 265

Picts, traces of the mother-age among, 127

Pit-brow women, 284

Plants, sex in, 50 (_note_)

Plato on women, 226

Polyandry, 149-154

Polygamy, 192, 204, 230, 279

Position of the sexes, early. _See_ Origin of the sexes

Promiscuity, belief in an early period of, 120 (_note_), 121

Primitive human love, 119-121

Primitive woman. _See_ Mother-age

Prostitutes, 342, 360, 364-368

Prostitution, 341, 359-374
---- causes of, 282-283, 362-365, 368-371, 373-374

Prostitution, remedies for, 363-364, 369, 371, 374

Protozoa, 37 _et seq._

Pueblos tribes, 137-139

Purity, the ideal of, for women, 373-374

R

Race, the, its significance in relation to woman, 27, 44, 63, 257,
283, 289, 290, 354, 383-385

Re-birth of woman, 20, 27, 63, 257, 283, 290, 378, 385

Religion and sexuality, 317, 319-323
---- and women, 157, 317-328

Reproduction, theory of. _See_ Origin of Sex

Reproductive cells. _See_ Ovum and Spermatozoon

Reptiles, love amongst, 79

Responsibility in the sexual relationships. _See_ Love, ennoblement of

Revolution in the position of woman, 1-2, 4, 7-9, 27, 280, 379-380, 382

Revolutionary forces, 280, 281, 291

Rome, position of women in, 227-242
---- divorce by consent in, 233
---- evolution of marriage in, 229-233
---- high status of women in later periods in, 234-238
---- influence of Christianity on position of women in, 235, 239-240
---- licentiousness, alleged in, 238-239
---- traces of the mother-age in, 228

S

Sai. _See_ Pueblos

Santal tribes, 148

Sappho, 217, 301

Schopenhauer on woman, 9, 267

Sea-horse, parental care of males among, 80

Secondary sexual characters, 12, 48, 78 _et seq._, 88 _et seq._, 104
_et seq._, 114, 248-256, 261-263, 265, 268, 273-278, 292 _et seq._

Seduction, 364-365

Senecas. _See_ Iroquois

Sense of shame in woman, 255, 326

Sensibility of woman, 309 _et seq._