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Table of Contents

The fact of psychical sexual differences — Attempts to deny their existence — Rosa Mayreder’s “Critique of Femininity” — The sexual nuances of the psyche — Ineradicability of these — Condemnation of psychical bisexuality — Expression of psychical difference in the demeanour of the sperm cell and the germ cell — Original representatives of the differing natures of man and woman — Recent researches regarding psychical sexual differences — Sensory sensations — Intellectual differences — Experiments of Jastrow, Minot, and others — Inquiries of Delaunay and Havelock Ellis — Readier suggestibility of women — Tendencies to independent activity on the part of women — Higher spiritual activities in man and woman — Woman’s talent for politics — Emotivity of woman — Greater susceptibility to fatigue — Decline of emotivity in the modern woman — Artistic talents of man and woman — Greater variability of man — Influence of menstruation on the feminine physique — Psychological experiments of H. B. Thompson — Woman and man heterogeneous natures — Comparison by Alfons Bilharz — The enigmatical in woman — Poets and thinkers on this question — A saying of Theodor Mundt — Antipathy of the sexes — Love as the solution of the enigma — Significance of psychical differences for the woman’s question — Part played by women in civilization — Retrospect of primeval history — Women as the discoverers of handicrafts and arts — As the teachers of man — Thomas Henry Huxley on the woman’s question — The value of work for woman — Improvement of domestic service according to Schmoller — The woman of the future.

Appendix: Sexual Sensibility in Woman. — An old topic of dispute — Sexual sensibility in man — Feminine erotic types — Theory of Lombroso and Ferrero — Adler’s monograph — Refutation of the theory of the lesser sensual sensibility of woman — Diffuse character of the feminine sexual sphere — Researches of Havelock Ellis regarding the sexual impulse in woman — Experience of alienists regarding sexuality in woman — A case of temporary sexual anæsthesia — Causes of sexual frigidity.