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