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A WOMAN'S PHILOSOPHY OF WOMAN;
OR
WOMAN AFFRANCHISED.
AN ANSWER TO MICHELET, PROUDHON, GIRARDIN, LEGOUVÉ,
COMTE, AND OTHER MODERN INNOVATORS.
By MADAME D'HÉRICOURT.
Translated from the last Paris Edition
NEW YORK:
CARLETON, PUBLISHER, 413 BROADWAY.
M DCCC LXIV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
G. W. CARLETON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of
New York.
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INTRODUCTION | VII |
PREFACE | IX |
CHAP. | |
I. MICHELET | 17 |
II. PROUDHON | 33 |
III. COMTE | 119 |
IV. LEGOUVE | 134 |
V. DE GIRARDIN | 155 |
VI. MODERN COMMUNISTS | 167 |
VII. SUMMARY | 201 |
PART II. | |
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OBJECTIONS TO THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN | 211 |
NATURE AND FUNCTIONS OF WOMAN | 224 |
LOVE; ITS FUNCTIONS IN HUMANITY | 248 |
MARRIAGE | 270 |
SUMMARY OF PROPOSED REFORMS | 294 |
APPEAL TO WOMEN | 314 |
The general interest evinced in the theories of Micheletand other philosophers concerning the functions and provinceof woman, and the lively opposition to these theoriesmanifested in many quarters,