CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION SUBJECT AND PLAN.-Superiority of the female sex; various social condi- ent races PART FIRST. Pages 7-13 FEMALE COSTUME.-Origin of dress; difference in the sexes; tastes of sava- ges; costumes of Mahommedans-Chinese-Hindoos-French peasants→→→ English-Dutch-Northern Europe-Southern; fashionable costumes; cosmetics, paint, and ornaments; corsets and bandages; modesty of dress; early history of costume; Greek and Roman costumes; silk; fashions of Central Europe; extravagance in the middle ages; vagaries PART THIRD. FEMALE EDUCATION.-Opinions of female qualities; importance of female education; female education in Ancient Egypt-Phoenicia-Persia- Greece-Rome; erudition of Roman ladies; learned women of the middle ages; succeeding ignorance; modern fashionable female education; Afri- can boarding-schools-Mahommedan-Chinese; North American In- dians; Virgins of the Sun; destiny of woman in America COURTSHIP.-Nature and origin; law, and exceptions; courting by proxy; right of Hebrew widows; Hurons and Iroquois; origin of polygamy; barbarous contests; beautiful customs of Greece; charms and conjura- tions; Scandinavian women and poetry; Odin's advice to lovers; story of Grymer; courting by combat; equal privileges; Indian customs Greenland maidens; Spanish lovers; Turkish gallantry; courtship in freedom; curious customs in the United States; social reform, PART FIFTH. MARRIAGE.-Nature and varieties of marriage; relations of animals; theo- ries of human origin; primitive ceremonies; Jewish form; Assyrian wives at auction; beautiful customs of Greece; three kinds at Rome; intro- duction of marriage by priests; customs of Modern Europe; northern nations; dowries; marriage in China; purchase of wives in Tartary ; Arabian, Syrian, and Armenian marriages; customs of the Hindoos-Bir- mans-Siberian tribes-East-India Islands; African marriages; polygamy and monogamy; plurality of husbands; Christian polygamy; the true PART SIXTH. TREATMENT AND CONDITION.-Female degradation and slavery; how used in ancient nations; treatment of women in Ancient Greece; Roman cus- toms and laws; honors to women; high estimation of women in Northern Europe; chivalry; condition of females in Africa; despotism and volup- tuousness; slavery of negro women; Hottentots; Japanese; Chinese; argument in favor of polygamy; Persia; life in the seraglio; condition of Mahommedan women; of the women of the East Indies; burning widows; selling wives and children; punishments for adultery; women of Tartary and Siberia; morals of Kamtschatka; American Aborigines; Mexicans and Peruvians; savage cruelties; influence of Christianity; condition of woman in modern civilization; marriages of convenience; PART SEVENTH. CHARACTER AND CONDUCT.-Peculiarities of female character; delicacy in different countries; modesty and chastity of ancient nations; morals and religion; Grecian courtezans; laws of Sparta and Athens; Roman virtue; progress of depravity; religious debauchery; chastity of northern wo- men; morals in the sixth century; singular customs; morals of savages; anecdote of Iceland; Oriental delicacy; Bayaderes; religious prostitu- tion; manners of Turkey; women of Christendom; European morals; customs of Italy; Spanish society; women of France; courts of love; English women; women of the United States; general character of PART EIGHTH. PROMISE OF THE FUTURE.-The destiny of woman; her past condition; sion 204--288 BOOKS SENT BY MAIL TO ANY POST OFFICE IN THE UNITED STATES." A LIST OF WORKS BY FOWLERS AND WELLS, CLINTON HALL, 131 NASSAU STREET, New York. 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