Table of Contents

Table of Contents

from In Defense of Women by H. L. Mencken - 1922 - part of a collection of etexts related to women's history

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IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN

by H. L. Mencken

Contents

Introduction

I. The Feminine Mind

1. The Maternal Instinct

2. Women's Intelligence

3. The Masculine Bag of Tricks

4. Why Women Fail

5. The Thing Called Intuition

II. The War Between the Sexes

6. How Marriages are Arranged

7. The Feminine Attitude

8. The Male Beauty

9. Men as Aesthetes

10. The Process of Delusion

11. Biological Considerations

12. Honour

13. Women and the Emotions

14. Pseudo-Anaesthesia

15. Mythical Anthropophagi

16. A Conspiracy of Silence

III. Marriage

17. Fundamental Motives

18. The Process of Courtship

19. The Actual Husband

20. The Unattainable Ideal

21. The Effect on the Race

22. Compulsory Marriage

23. Extra-Legal Devices

24. Intermezzo on Monogamy

25. Late Marriages

26. Disparate Unions

27. The Charm of Mystery

28. Woman as Wife

29. Marriage and the Law

30. The Emancipated Housewife

IV. Woman Suffrage

31. The Crowning Victory

32. The Woman Voter

33. A Glance Into the Future

34. The Suffragette

35. A Mythical Dare-Devil

36. The Origin of a Delusion

37. Women as Martyrs

38. Pathological Effects

39. Women as Christians

40. Piety as a Social Habit

41. The Ethics of Women

V. The New Age

42. The Transvaluation of Values

43. The Lady of Joy

44. The Future of Marriage

45. Effects of the War

46. The Eternal Romance

47. Apologia in Conclusion

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