WOMAN IN ANTIQUITY.
Women of Antiquity--Their Condition in Heathen and Mohammedan
Countries--Marriage, Divorce, etc.
CHAPTER III.
LATER ESTIMATE OF WOMAN.
Estimation in which Women were held later--Cause and Effect--Mental
Attainments despite of Oppression and Prohibition--Equal Men in
Government, etc.--Frivolity, Literature, and Home Duties--Muscle not
Mind--Marriage Ceremonies
CHAPTER IV.
THE SEXES EQUAL AT CREATION.
Created Equal--Genesis iii, 16, considered--Monogamy--Lapse into
Heathenism--Polygamy--The Patriarchs--The Law of Maid-servants and
Bondwomen--Divorce; Christ recognized the Equality of Right
therein--Eminent Women of Israel--Virtue and Vice of no Sex
CHAPTER V.
NEW TESTAMENT TEACHINGS.
The New Testament Scriptures--How they Define the Position of Women
CHAPTER VI.
WOMAN BEFORE THE LAW.
Equally amenable to Laws, Human and Divine--To rear and govern a Family
rightly, requires Sound Judgment--Relative Mental Capacity of the Sexes
not yet fairly tested--Comparisons--Christianity has done much, yet much
remains to be done--Right in Each Other's Property--Men juster than the
Laws--Query--Justice should be even-handed--A United Head--Women trained
to perpetuate the Wrongs of their Sex
CHAPTER VII.
WOMAN AND LEGISLATION.
Taxation without Representation--One-sided Legislation--Similar
Objections urged against the Extensions of Franchise--Domestic
Discord--Present Causes--Citizenship not Inconsistent with Home
Duties--The State has been benefited at the Risk of her Life through all
Ages--Assertions confuted--Modern Churches have departed from Primitive
Usages--The Friends--Women as Philanthropists, Public Speakers, Artists,
Physicians--Educated Women during the Late War--The Universities
CHAPTER VIII.
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