INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Abipones:Baldness;Tattooing courage;Cruel to women;Parental tyranny.

Abyssinians:Concubinage;Women not coy;Amulets;Choice;Where woman rules;No chance for love;Pastoral love;A flirtation.

Achilles and Briseis.

Acontius and Cydippe.

Adoration, contempt, and adulation:(See also Women: maltreatment of, and contempt for).

Affection.

Africans:Mutilations;Vanity and emulation;Scarification;Beauty not appreciated;Corpulence versus beauty;Concupiscence versus beauty;Kissing;Why wives are valued;Desertion of the aged;"Liberty of choice,";Chapter on (See Table of Contents and names of peoples: Bushmen,Hottentots, Kaffirs, etc.).

Ainos:A flirtation.

Algerians:Kabyles.

Algonkins:Tattooing;Words for love.

Altruism:(See Selfishness).

Amazons:(See Women, masculine).

American Indians:Fear of nature;Honorable polygamy;Ashamed to wear clothes;Indifference to chastity;Incest;Advertising for a wife;Repression of preference;Utility versus beauty;Masculine women;A girl's ideal;Polygamous sentiment;"Jealousy,";Absence of real jealousy;Unjealous Californians and Patagonians;Feminine jealousy;Absence of;Easily overcome;Causes of;Proposals by girls;Capture of women;Pride;Cruelty;Contempt for women;Kinship through females;Woman's domestic and political rule;Ungallant;Caressing no evidence of affection;War decorations;Tattooing;Hair dresses;Valor versus beauty;Tattooing as a mark of courage;Language of signs;Utility versus beauty;Uncleanly;Child-wives;Conjugal "tenderness,";Mourning to order;Conjugal grief;Lack of brains;"Liberty of choice,";Sexual taboos;Tribal hatred;Chapter on (See Table of Contents);Defenders;Stories;Not true to life;Morals;Not gallant;Lower than brutes;Enforced chastity, but no purity;Why some female captives were spared;Squaws intimidated;Beauty not valued;Lack of sympathy;Contempt for squaws;Girl market;Marriage arrangements;Elopements;Suicide;Love-dreams;Curiosities of courtship;Silent proposals;Music in courtship;Honeymoon;Love-poems;Philology and love;More stories.

Animals:Superior to savages;Gallant roosters;A noble officer;Maternal instinct;Sexual selection;Superior to Hindoos.

Annamanese:Incest.

Antigone and Haemon.

Apaches:Hair;Filthy;"Purity" and cruelty;Cruelty to mothers;Enslave women;Courtship.

Appetite and longing.

Arabs:Nudity;Unjealous;Unjealous women;Bedouin women not coy;Resistance of brides;Love among;Shaping skulls;Corpulence versus beauty;Love and lust;One wife not enough;Desertion of parents;Influence on others.

Arapahoes:Protection against men;Girls as merchandise.

Araucanians:Brides sold;Bride-capture;Musical lovers.

Ashangos:Amazons.

Ashantees:No free choice.

Attachment.

Australians:Inclined to murder;Infanticide;Indifference to chastity;Jealous women;Female opposition to marriage;Capture not encouraged;Protection not gallantry;Risking life for a woman;War-paint;Mutilations;Signs of mourning;Colors to attract attention;Feathers to look savage;Scarification;Women and ornaments;Taking notice of a man's face;Must submit to mutilations;Women indifferent to decorations;Filthy;"Appreciation of beauty";Child-wives;Mourning to order;"Love";Lewd dances;Price of a wife;Chapter on (See Table of Contents).

Azteks:(See Mexicans).

Babylonian women.

Bakongo:Headdresses.

Bathing:Reasons for.

Bayadères.

Beauty:Personal;Hottentot ideal;Australian;South Sea Islanders;Not valued in squaws;Hindoo ideal;Greek masculine ideal.

Bechuanas:Polygamy.

Bhuiyas:Romantic courtship.

Bible:(See Hebrews).

Blackfeet:Punishing infidelity;Maltreatment of squaws;"Only a woman";Disposal of girls;Marrying sisters;Elopements;Courtship.

Borneans:Marriage by stratagem;Tattooing;Suicidal grief;Caged girls (See also Dyaks).

Brazilians:Tribal marks;Tattooing;Lack of brains;Multiplicity of languages;Licentiousness;Jus primae noctis;Women as slaves;Words to express love.

Brides:Capture or purchase of (See Marriage).

Bushmen:Imperfect sexual differentiation;Charms;Child-wives;Various details;No liberty of choice.

Butias:Promiscuity.

California Indians:Adultery;Tattooing;Uncleanly;Voluptuous beauties;Deceptive modesty;Intimidating the squaws;Treatment of squaws;Marriage;Courtship;Puberty songs;Stories.

Cannibalism:Australian.

Capture of brides:(See Marriage).

Caribs:Columbus on;Jus primae noctis;Women as drudges.

Caroline Islanders:Tattooing.

Chansons de Geste:Courting by women.

Charms.

Chastity and unchastity.

Cherokees:Immoral.

Cheyennes:Protection against men;Girls as merchandise.

Chinese:Hiding women's feet;Feminine coercion to marriage;Pitiable condition of women;Love considered immoral;Why deform women's feet;Marriage restrictions.

Chinooks:Painting;Unchaste;Position of women;Love-songs.

Chippewas:Husband and wife;Lending wives;Cruelty to women;"Choice";Love-powders;No love.

Chippewyans:Unchaste;Love and drums.

Chittagong Hill Tribes:Capacity for love.

Choice:Prevention of;New Zealand;Indians;Wild tribes of India;Hindoos.

Christianity:Vs. natural selection;Prayer;Encourages feminine virtues;Ideal of love.

Cleanliness:Indifference to.

Coarseness:An obstacle to love.

Comanches:Utilitarian marriages;Cruel jealousy;Filthy;Lower than brutes;Enforce chastity on wives.

Congo:Ornaments as fetiches;Mourning;Wives esteemed as mothers only;"Poetic love" on.

Coreans:Contempt for women.

Corpulence versus beauty.

Corrobborees.

Courage:Mutilation a test of.

Courtship:Greenland;Creeks;Zulu;Australian;Torres Islands;Dyaks;New Zealand;Apaches;Omahas;Curiosities of Indian;Bhuiyas;Hindoo;Greek.

Coyness:(See Table of Contents).

Creeks:Masculine women;Deceptive modesty;Immoral;Women as slaves;Contempt for women;Choice and marriage;Suicides.

Crees:Unchastity.

Cruelty:In women;An obstacle to love;Of Indians:Of Hindoos;Of Greeks;(See Women, maltreatment of).

Dahomans:Signs of grief;Compulsory mourning;Amazons.

Dakotas:Honorable polygamy;Similarity of sexes;Gallantry;War-decorations;Paint;Uncleanly;Lower than brutes;Market value of chastity;Maltreatment of squaws;Sorrows of women;Disposal of girls;Honeymoon;Suicide;Love-charms;Courtship;Love-poems;A love-story.

Damaras:Lack of sympathy;Uncleanly;Temporary marriages.

Decorations, personal.

Delawares:Treatment of squaws;Suicide.

Dyaks:Head-hunters;Gallantry;Scars and courage;Charms of women;Morals;Courtship;Fickle and shallow passion;Love-songs.

Dying for love.

Egyptians:Obscenity in tombs;Love;Child-wives.

Elopements:Philosophy of Australian;Why Indians elope.

Eskimos:No morality or chastity;Not modest or coy;Ungallant;Risking life for a woman;Assaults;Mutilations;Tattooing;Tattoo marks and husbands;Filthy;"Love-unions;"Capacity for love.

Esthetic sense:(See Beauty).

Esthonians:Mock coyness.

Fashion and mutilation.

Females:Kinship thorough.

Feminine ideals:Superior to masculine;Encouraged by Christianity;Greek ignorance of.

Fetiches.

Fijians:Murder a virtue;Infanticide;Preference;Similarity of sexes;Jealousy;Proposal by a girl;Feathers to attract attention;Eat useless wives;Choice;Cleanliness;Treatment of women;Modesty and chastity;Sentimentality;Love-poems;Serenades and proposals;Suicides and bachelors.

Fondness.

Fuegians:Marriage.

Gallantry:A lesson in;American Indians;Wild tribes of India;Greeks;Hebrews.

Gallas:Coarseness of.

Garos:Proposing by girls.

Gipsies:Incest.

Greeks:Hegel on love;Love in Homer;Wood, Shelley;Macaulay, Bulwer, Gautier;Sentimentality;No love of romantic scenery;Incest;Jealousy;Homeric women not coy;Women the embodiment of lust;Masculine coyness;Shy women;War and love;Mercenary coyness;Mixed moods in love;Amorous hyperbole;Artificial symptoms;Sympathy denounced by Plato;Estimate of women;Unchivalrous;Risking life for a woman;Suicide and love;Love turns to hate;Woman-love considered sensual;Attitude toward female beauty;Sensual love;Barrenness a cause of divorce;Chapter on Greek love;Champions of;Gladstone on the women of Homer;Achilles as a lover;Words versus actions;Odysseus, libertine and ruffian;Penelope as a model wife;Conjugal tenderness of Hector;Barbarous treatment of women;Love in Sappho's poems;Anacreon and others;Woman and love in AEschylus;In Sophocles;In Euripides;Romantic love for boys;Platonic love excludes women;Made impossible in Sparta;Preference for masculine women and beauty;Oriental costumes;Love in life and in literature;In Greater Greece;Seventeen symptoms;Alexandrian chivalry;The New Comedy;Theocritus and Callimachus;Medea and Jason;Poets and hetairai;No stories of romantic love;Romances;Marriage among.

Greenlanders:Indifferent to chastity;Courtship.

Guatemalans:Brides selected for men;Erotic philology.

Guiana:War-paint;Tattooing;Women as drudges;Marriage arrangements.

Harari:Amorous hyperbole;Love-poems.

Hawaiians:Infanticide;Nudity;Indifference to chastity;Incest;Similarity of sexes;Ungallant;Mutilations;Mourning;Personal appearance;Love-stories;Quality of love;Morals.

Head-hunters.

Heads:Moulded.

Hebrews:Women not coy;Champions for;Stories;No sympathy or sentiment;A masculine ideal of womanhood;Not the Christian ideal of love;Unchivalrous slaughter of women;Song of Songs.

Hector and Andromache.

Hero and Leander.

Hetairai.

Hindoos:(See India).

Honeymoon:Among Indians.

Hope and Despair.

Hottentots:Courtship;Uncleanly;Ugliness;Child-wives;Various details.

Hurons:Preference and aversion;Immorality;Woman man's mule;Old wives for young men.

Hyperbole.

Importance of Love:(See Utility).

Incest:(See Licentious Festivals);Horror of.

India: Hindoos:Immorality in religion;Idea of politeness;Of modesty;Incest;Mixed moods in love;Arousing pride;Sham altruism;Contempt for women;Ungallant;Impurity;Idea of beauty;Widow-burning;Conjugal "devotion,";Barren wives discarded;Cruelty to infant wives;"Maiden's choice,";Chapter on;Child murder and marriage;Parental selfishness;Below brutes;Contempt for women;Widows and their tormentors;Depravity;Symptoms of love: feminine;Masculine;Artificial symptoms;God of love;Dying for love;What Hindoo poets admire in women;Shrewd selfishness;Bayadères and princesses as heroines;Marriages of choice not respectable.

India: Wild Tribes:Religious sacrifices;Filthy;Practical promiscuity;Romantic customs;Choice;Courtship;Proposing by girls;Attachments.

Indians:(See American Indians).

Individual preference.

Infanticide.

Intelligence:Importance of, to beauty.

Iroquois:Feathers and rank;No love;Licentious festivals;Cruelty to mothers;Woman man's servant;Love the last product of civilization.

Jacob and Rachel.

Japanese:Concubines;Lover's pride;Contempt for women;No love-marriages;Tattooing.

Javanese:Marriage before puberty;No liberty of choice.

Jealousy:Rousseau on;Chapter on (See Table of Contents).

Jus primae noctis.

Kaffirs:Cattle versus women;Pride vs. love;Pride to aid love;Uncleanly;Child-wives;No free choice;Various details.

Kaffirs of Hindu-Kush:Unjealous.

Kamerun:Nudity;No individual preference;No love in.

Kandhs:Licentious festivals.

Klamath Indians:Erotic songs.

Korumbas, promiscuity.

Kukis:Unchastity.

Kwakiutl Indians:Love-songs.

Languages:Multiplicity of.

Latuka:Polygamy.

Lepchas:Promiscuity.

Levirate.

Licentious festivals;Kaffir;Australian (See Corrobborees);Hawaiians;American Indians;India.

Liking.

Longing.

Love, conjugal:Nature of;Mistakes regarding;African;Australian;Dyak;Fijian;Hawaiian;New Zealand;Indian;Hindoo;Greek.

Love-letters:African;Australian;Hawaiian.

Love: pathologic.

Love-poems:Turkish;Fijian;Somali;Esthonian;Hottentot;Harari;New Zealand;Indian;Hindoo;Song of Songs;Greek.

Love:Primitive.

Love:Romantic;A compound;The word;Last product of civilization;Importance of;What it is;Ingredients;Jealousy in;Power of;Hyperbole;Comic side of;Symptoms;Sympathy;Adoration;Actions versus words;Affection;Mental purity;Definition of;Why called romantic;Sentiment;Vanity of;Changed to conjugal love;Obstacles to;Baker on African;Zöller on African;Absent in Abyssinia;Among Bushmen;Hottentots;Kaffirs;Negroes;Gallas;Somals;Kabyles;Touaregs;Germs;Australian "affection,";Sentimental touches;Dyak love;Fijian love;Tahitian love;Polynesian stories;Hawaiian love;Its violence compared with sensual passion;To be found in New Zealand?;Unchastity incompatible with;Indian "refined love,";Does suicide prove love?;Philologic evidence;Indian specimens;Whole tracts of feeling unknown to savages;Unknown to Hindoos;To Hebrews;To Greeks;Utility of.

Madagascar:Unchastity.

Mahâbhârata.

Makololo:Mutilations.

Malavika and Agnimitra.

Mandans:Women not jealous;Not coy;Obliged to mourn;Apparent modesty;Lower than brutes;"Conjugal love,";Brides sold.

Maoris (See New Zealanders).

Marriage:Polygamy more honorable than monogamy;Monopolism and monogamy;Chastity not valued in;Utilitarian;Wives as property;On trial;A farce;And corpulence;Why savages value wives;Of women, without choice (See Choice);In China;Love in Bushman;Why Australians marry;By exchange of girls;By elopement (See Elopements);Taboos;Of souls;By stratagem;Christian ideal vs. ancient Hebrew;In Greece;Plato's ideal;In Tonga;In Hawaii;Indians;In India;By capture and mock capture;By purchase;Before puberty;(See also Promiscuity).

Masculine selfishness:(See Selfishness).

Medea and Jason.

Mediaeval gallantry.

Melanesians:Morals.

Mexicans:Barrenness a cause of divorce;Practical promiscuity;Woman's inferior position;Marriage conditions;Aztek love-poems;Erotic philology.

Micronesians:Tattooing.

Militarism and feminine lack of coyness.

Mishmees:Unchastity.

Mixed Moods:(See Hope and Despair).

Modesty:Curiosities of;Deception;Absence of, etc. (See Chastity).

Modocs:Dangers of adultery;Why they marry;Marriage ceremony.

Mohammedans:Polygamy;Contempt for women.

Mojaves:Jewels and rank;Morals.

Monopolism.

Moors:Ideas of beauty;Ugly features.

Mordvins:Mock coyness.

Mosquitos:Lower than animals.

Mourning:Decorations;To order;For entertainment.

Murder:As a virtue.

Mutilations.

Nagas:Ungallant.

Nala and Damayanti.

Natchez:Lending wives;Unchaste;Treatment of squaws.

Natural selection:Replaced by love.

Navajos:Unchastity;Treatment of women;Courtship.

Negroes, African:Feminine aspect of men;Delight in torture;Scarification;Idea of beauty;No love among.

New Britain Group:Paying for a wife.

New Hebrides:Infanticide.

New Zealanders:Masculine women;Wooing-house;Decorations;Anesthetic;Object of tattooing;Filthy;Origin of the Maoris;Love-poems;Courtship;Morals.

Niam-Niam:Conjugal love.

Nicaraguans:Tattooing;Licentious festivals;Eating a rival.

Nudity:(See Modesty).

Obscenity:An obstacle to love.

Odysseus as a husband.

Old maids.

Omahas:Tribal marks;Tattooing;Courtship;Buying wives;And elopements;An idyl;Love-poems.

Oráons:Promiscuity;Courtship.

Oriental ideal of beauty;Sentimentality.

Osages:Tattooing;Unchaste.

Pacific Islands:Love on.

Paharias:Attachment.

Paiderastia [Greek].

Papuans:Nudity.

Pastoral love.

Patagonians:Adultery;Decorations;No esthetic sense;Licentiousness;Women as drudges;Marriages;A courtship.

Paul and Virginia.

Pawnees:Apathy of brides;Daughters as merchandise;Courtship.

Penelope as a model wife.

Perseus and Andromeda.

Persians:Cruel jealousy;Unjealous women;Amorous hyperbole;Love among;Impurity.

Peruvians:Mutilations;Sun virgins;Cruel to women;Marriage;Love-charms;Words to express love.

Philippine Islanders:Bisayos;Indifferent to chastity;Women not jealous.

Piutes:Nocturnal courtship.

Pocahontas, story of.

Polynesians:Gods;Infanticide;Proposals by women;Tattooing;Reasons for bathing;Beauty means fat.

Pride, amorous.

Priestesses.

Promiscuity, practical.

Proposing:By women;In Fiji;Silent;By Indians.

Puberty:Decorations and mutilations at;Marriage before (See Marriage).

Pueblos:Girls propose;Unchastity.

Purchase of brides:(See Marriage).

Purity, mental.

Race aversion.

Rebekah, the courting of.

Religion:No love in early;Fear;Blasphemy;Sacrifices;Immorality;Associated with.

Religious prejudices.

Romans:Refined sensual love;Mercenary coyness;Amorous hyperbole;Sham gallantry;Suicide and love;Terence and Plautus;Catullus;Tibullus;Propertius and Ovid.

Romantic, meaning of.

Ruth and Boaz.

Sakuntala.

Samoans:Idea of modesty;Obscene conversation;Various traits;Chastity;Courtship pantomime;Love-stories;Personal appearance.

Samoyedes: selfish men.

Savitri.

Scarification.

Scenery, romantic.

Selfishness:(See Women, maltreatment of);Adoration;Sympathy;Gallantry;Affection.

Self-sacrifice.

Sensuality:Antipode of love;Fastidious;Is not love;Goethe's error;Appetite and longing;And sentimentality (See Chastity).

Sentiment, versus sentimentality.

Sentimentality.

Sentiments:How they change and grow.

Separation of the sexes.

Sexual characters, primary and secondary.

Sexual selection.

Sexuality, mental.

Singhalese: utilitarian marriage.

Sioux:(See Dakotas).

Social barriers to love.

Somali:Unjealous wives;Feathers;Fat versus beauty;A love-song;Child-wives;Barren women chased away;Absence of gallantry;Love-affairs.

Song of Songs.

Sorceresses.

Stories, incidents, and dramas:African;American Indian;Australian;Eskimo;Greek;Hawaiian;Hebrew;Indian (Hindoo and wild tribes);New Zealand;Oriental;Polynesian;Samoan;Tahitian;Tongan.

Suicide and love.

Sumatrans:Marriages;Selfish men;No choice.

Swedes: mock-capture.

Sympathy.

Syria: idea of modesty.

Taboos, sexual.

Tahitians:Tattooing;Indifference to chastity;Contempt for women;Compressed heads;Flowers and licentiousness;Mourning;Personal appearance;Depraved by white visitors?

Tasmanians:Charms;Mourning.

Taste, disputing about.

Tattooing.

Temple girls, Hindoo.

Thibet:Unchastity;Woman's wretched lot.

Thlinkeets:Exchanging wives;War-paint;Mutilations;Suicide.

Todas:Unjealous.

Tongans:Tattooing;Beads and vanity;Personal appearance;Were they civilized?Love of scenery.

Torres Strait Islanders.

Tribal marks.

Tupis: no jealousy.

Turks:Modesty;Love-song;Amorous hyperbole;Arousing pride;Coarseness;Lust versus love;Mourning to order.

Uganda:Nudity;Disposal of women.

Unchastity:(See Chastity).

Urvasi.

Utility of love.

Vasantasena.

Veddahs:Incest.

Virginity:Penetrative;Indifference to;(See Chastity).

Votyaks:Indifference to chastity;Mock capture;

War:An obstacle to love.

Whites:Did they corrupt savages?

Widows:Tormented in India;Burning of.

Winona's leap.

Wives:(See Marriage).

Women:Homage to priestesses;Domestic rule;Political rule;Is gallantry an "insult?"Pugnacious;Crueler than men;Woman's sphere;Maltreatment of and contempt for;Masculine women;No liberty of choice (See Choice).

Wooing:By women;(see Proposing).

Yucatan:War decorations;Tattooing.

Yumas:Immorality.


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