Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.

  • Alexander Walker
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1839
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    CONTENTS, XX1il tesquieu’s reasoning on this subject.—Answer.—A pology for poly- _gamy.—Answer.—Relation of women to each other in the East.— Infidelity of eastern women.— Hostility of this to friendship.— To female liberty—Its injury to children—lIts effects on the parents, male and female.—As to civilization and freedom.—Mon- tesquieu’s love of hypothesis.—Effects of indissoluble monogamy in Europe resemble those of polygamy.—These compared.—Na- tural causes of concubinage and courtezanism.—Their artificial and chief cause, indissoluble marriage.—Concubinage in an- cient Greece.—In modern nations.—lIts evil consequences.—Its insufficiency, as well as that of polygamy.—Courtezanism both unsatisfactory and vicious, however inevitable under indissoluble marriage.—The courtezans of Asiatic Greece. —Those of Corinth. —Phryne.—Aspasia.—Classes of Hetairai.—Their relation to the fine arts and to religion.—Their accomplishments.—Their influence.—Conduct of the cynics in regard to them.—The ac- cuser of Phryne and Hyperides.—Solon’s permission of courte- zans.—Cato’s and Cicero’s conduct in that respect.—Courtezan- ism in modern times. —In France.—Ninon de ]’Enclos.—At the present time.—Courtezanism in England.—Reasonable freedom of divorce the cure for it.—In Africa.—In the South Sea Islands. The Ehrioi.—The despotism of man, the first cause of these evils. —They have no dependence on natural and necessary law.—Mis- take of Dr. Priestly on this subject.—Evils of courtezanism.— Danger of exposure.—Ruinous expense.—Disinclination to ho- nourable connexion.—Impairment of constitution.—Peculiar dis- ease.—Injury to women.—For all this, the legitimate offspring of indissoluble marriage and of the acts of man, woman additionally and severely punished by man.—The share which parents take in punishing their children on this account.—Conduct of women to each other. APPENDIX, No. I., p. 366. APPENDIX, No. II, p. 382.
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