Woman: An Historical Gynælogical and Anthropological Compendium, Volume Two provides information pertinent to relationships of women to the male sex. This book discusses the concepts of modesty, chastity, and respects for women in cultural history. Organized into 39 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the sexual relation of woman to man. This text then explores various topics, including love and the artificial arousing of love, various forms of betrothal, marriage, procreation, impregnation, and conception. Other chapters consider the position of woman in the family and in the nation. This book discusses as well the reciprocal relations between husband and wife, which are of the highest significance for the stage of morality to which each people has attained. The final chapter deals with the different kinds of customs that are associated with or directly attached to parturition. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists, ethnologists, and research workers.

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Front Cover
An Historical Gynæcological and Anthropological Compendium
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. INITIATION INTO SEXUAL EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER II. VIRGINITY: WOMAN AS MAIDEN
CHAPTER III. WOMAN IN THE SEXUAL ACT
CHAPTER IV. PROSTITUTION
CHAPTER V. RELIGIOUS CREEDS AND SOCIAL CUSTOMS IN MARRIAGE AND PROSTITUTION
CHAPTER VI. LOVE AND COURTSHIP
CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE
CHAPTER VIII. THE PREGNANT WOMAN
CHAPTER IX. STERILITY IN WOMAN
CHAPTER X. FERTILITY
CHAPTER XI. MOTHER AND CHILD
CHAPTER XII. MULTIPLE PREGNANCY
CHAPTER XIII. THE PHYSICAL HYGIENE OF PREGNANCY
CHAPTER XIV. NORMAL AND ABNORMAL PREGNANCY
CHAPTER XV. SOCIAL PROCEDURE DURING PREGNANCY
CHAPTER XVI. THE HYGIENIC TREATMENT OF PREGNANCY
CHAPTER XVII. DANGERS AND HELP IN PREGNANCY
CHAPTER XVIII. THE THERAPY AND PROGNOSIS OF PREGNANCY
CHAPTER XIX. PREMATURE DELIVERY AND MISCARRIAGE
CHAPTER XX. ACCIDENTAL OR SPONTANEOUS MISCARRIAGE
CHAPTER XXI. INTENTIONAL ABORTION OR TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY
CHAPTER XXII. NORMAL BIRTH AT TERM
CHAPTER XXIII. BIRTH IN RELIGIONS AND POPULAR BELIEF
CHAPTER XXIV. DEMONIC INFLUENCES AND GUARDIAN DEITIES
CHAPTER XXV. WHERE BIRTH TAKES PLACE
CHAPTER XXVI. HEALTH AT BIRTH
CHAPTER XXVII. NORMAL PROCESSES OF BIRTH
CHAPTER XXVIII. MIDWIFERY AND MEDICINE
CHAPTER XXIX. ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL OBSTETRICS
CHAPTER XXX. THE EVOLUTION OF OBSTETRICS IN EUROPE
CHAPTER XXXI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBSTETRICS IN THE REST OF MODERN EUROPE
CHAPTER XXXII. EVOLUTION OF OBSTETRICS IN MODERN ASIA
CHAPTER XXXIII. MIDWIVES IN PROVERBS AND FOLKLORE
CHAPTER XXXIV. TECHNIQUE OF NORMAL DELIVERY
CHAPTER XXXV. MANUAL AND MECHANICAL AID IN NORMAL DELIVERY
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE POSITION ASSUMED DURING LABOUR AMONG THE ANCIENT CIVILISED NATIONS
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE SEPARATION OF THE NEW-BORN CHILD
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE THIRD STAGE OF LABOUR
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE PLACENTA IN ETHNOGRAPHY

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