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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

THE WOMAN MOVEMENT

Most remarkable Feature of Twentieth Century Widespread Character of Movement Its earnest Nature Communal Life of Primitive Times Nomadic Existence Home of the earliest Indo-Europeans Position of their Women Woman equal to Man Rise of the Horde, the Tribe, the Nation No lasting Union between Man and Woman Marriage a later Institution Woman the domestic Toiler Man the outside Labourer Woman as Planter and Harvester Fixed Habitations replace Tents Heroic Age for Woman in most Lands Her Position in the Ramayana and Mahabharata Sita and Draupadi Hebrew Heroic Age of Women Miriam Deborah's Song of Victory Moslem Women of Arabia Equal Rights with Men Prophet's Views on Woman's Sphere His Wives Khadija and Ayesha His Daughter Fatima His Granddaughter Zainab Woman's Position when Moslem Rule was at its Height Under Mansur, Rashid-el-Mamun, Harun-al-Rashid Her Decline Woman in ancient Egypt In Greece Italy Germany Britain Her Progress checked The Age of Chivalry in Europe Intellectual Distinction of mediaeval Women Lady Professors German Women's Equality in Trade Corporations of Women Workers in France French Women as Governors of their Estates Renaissance and Woman Licentiousness of French Court of Marguerite de Valois Intellectual Culture of French Women of Seventeenth Century Madame de Main-

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