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In Defense of Women

by H. L. Mencken

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2I | The Feminine Mind
  3. 32 — Women’s Intelligence
  4. 43 — The Masculine Bag of Tricks
  5. 54 — Why Women Fail
  6. 65 — The Thing Called Intuition
  7. 7II — The War Between the Sexes
  8. 87 — The Feminine Attitude
  9. 98 — The Male Beauty
  10. 109 — Men as Aesthetes
  11. 1110 — The Process of Delusion
  12. 1211 — Biological Considerations
  13. 1312 — Honour
  14. 1413 — Women and the Emotions
  15. 1514 — Pseudo-Anaesthesia
  16. 1615 — Mythical Anthropophagi
  17. 1716 — A Conspiracy of Silence
  18. 18III | Marriage
  19. 1918 — The Process of Courtship
  20. 2019 — The Actual Husband
  21. 2120 — The Unattainable Ideal
  22. 2221 — The Effect on the Race
  23. 2322 — Compulsory Marriage
  24. 2423 — Extra-Legal Devices
  25. 2524 — Intermezzo on Monogamy
  26. 2625 — Late Marriages
  27. 2726 — Disparate Unions
  28. 2827 — The Charm of Mystery
  29. 2928 — Woman as Wife
  30. 3029 — Marriage and the Law
  31. 3130 — The Emancipated Housewife
  32. 32IV | Woman Suffrage
  33. 3332 — The Woman Voter
  34. 3433 — A Glance Into the Future
  35. 3534 — The Suffragette
  36. 3635 — A Mythical Dare-Devil
  37. 3736 — The Origin of a Delusion
  38. 3837 — Women as Martyrs
  39. 3938 — Pathological Effects
  40. 4039 — Women as Christians
  41. 4140 — Piety as a Social Habit
  42. 4241 — The Ethics of Women
  43. 43V | The New Age
  44. 4443 — The Lady of Joy
  45. 4544 — The Future of Marriage
  46. 4645 — Effects of the War
  47. 4746 — The Eternal Romance
  48. 4847 — Apologia in Conclusion

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