Author: August Bebel
Publisher: Aidwa/IPDA
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 480
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
Woman and Socialism was published in numerous editions in many languages, updated continuously during Bebel's lifetime, and many of these editions contained only a part of the original work.
This edition is complete, and was produced to mark the 50th Jubilee of the formation of German Workers Clubs in America.
Contents
Introduction
WOMAN IN THE PAST
Chapter I — The Position of Woman in Primeval Society
1. Chief Epochs of Primeval History
2. Family Forms
3. The Matriarchate
Chapter II — Conflict Between Matriarchate and Patriarchate
1. Rise of the Patriarchate
2. Traces of the Matriarchate in Greek Myths and Dramas
3. Legitimate Wives and Courtesans in Athens
4. Remnants of the Matriarchate in the Customs of Various Nations
5. Rise of the State — Dissolution of the Gens in Rome
Chapter III — Christianity
Chapter IV — Woman in the Mediaeval Age
1. The Position of Woman among the Germans
2. Feudalism and the Right of the First Night
3. The Rise of Cities — Monastic Affairs — Prostitution
4. Knighthood and the Veneration of Women
Chapter V — The Reformation
1. Luther
2. Results of the Reformation — The Thirty Years’ War
Chapter VI — The Eighteenth Century
1. Court Life in Germany
2. Commercialism and the New Marriage Laws
3. The French Revolution and the Rise of Industry
WOMAN AT THE PRESENT DAY
Chapter VII — Woman as a Sex Being
1. The Sexual Impulse
2. Celibacy and the Frequency of Suicide
Chapter VIII — Modern Marriage
1. Marriage as a Profession
2. Decline of the Birthrate
3. Mercenary Marriage and the Matrimonial Market
Chapter IX — Disruption of the Family
1. Increase of Divorce
2. Bourgeois and Proletarian Marriage
Chapter X — Marriage as a Means of Support
1. Decline of the Marriage Rate
2. Infanticide and Abortion
3. Education for Marriage
4. The Misery of Present Day Marriages
Chapter XI — The Chances of Matrimony
1. The Numerical Proportion of the Sexes
2. Obstacles to Marriage — The Excess of Women
Chapter XII — Prostitution a Necessary Social Institution of Bourgeois Society
1. Prostitution and Society
2. Prostitution and the State
3. The White Slave Trade
4. The Increase of Prostitution — Illegitimate Motherhood
5. Crimes against Morality and Sexual Diseases
Chapter XIII — Woman in Industry
1. Development and Extension of Female Labor
2. Factory Work of Married Women — Sweatshop Labor and Dangerous Occupations
Chapter XIV — The Struggle of Woman for Education
1. The Revolution in Domestic Life
2. The Intellectual Abilities of Women
3. Differences in Physical and Mental Qualities of Man and Woman
4. Darwinism and the Condition of Society
5. Woman and the Learned Professions
Chapter XV — The Legal Status of Women
1. The Struggle for Equality before the Law
2. The Struggle for Political Equality
STATE AND SOCIETY
Chapter XVI — The Class-State and the Modern Proletariat
1. Our Public Life
2. Aggravation of Social Extremes
Chapter XVII — The Process of Concentration in Capitalistic Industry
1. The Displacement of Agriculture by Industry
2. Increasing Pauperization — Preponderance of Large Industrial Establishments
3. Concentration of Wealth
Chapter XVIII — Crises and Competition
1. Causes and Effects of the Crises
2. Intermediate Trade and the Increased Cost of Living
Chapter XIX — The Revolution in Agriculture
1. Transatlantic Competition and Desertion of the Country
2. Peasants and Great Landowners
3. The Contrast between City and Country
THE SOCIALIZATION OF SOCIETY
Chapter XX — The Social Revolution
1. The Transformation of Society
2. Expropriation of the Expropriators
Chapter XXI — Fundamental Laws of Socialistic Society
1. Duty to Work of All Able-bodied Persons
2. Harmony of Interests
3. Organization of Labor
4. The Growth of the Productivity of Labor
5. Removal of the Contrast between Mental and Manual Work
6. Increase of Consumption
7. Equal Duty to Work for All
8. Abolition of Trade — Transformation of Traffic
Chapter XXII — Socialism and Agriculture
1. Abolition of the Private Ownership of Land
2. The Amelioration of Land
3. Changed Methods of Farming
4. Agriculture on a Large and Small Scale — Electric Appliances
5. Vine Culture of the Future
6. Measures to Prevent Exhaustion of the Soil
7. Removal of the Contrast between City and Country
Chapter XXIII — Abolition of the State
Chapter XXIV — The Future of Religion
Chapter XXV — The Socialist System of Education
Chapter XXVI — Literature and Art its Socialistic Society
Chapter XXVII — Free Development of Individuality
1. Freedom from Care
2. Changes in the Methods of Nutrition
3. The Communistic Kitchen
4. Transformation of Domestic Life
Chapter XXVIII — Woman in the Future
Chapter XXIX — Internationality
Chapter XXX — The Question of Population and Socialism
1. Fear of Overpopulation
2. Production of Overpopulation
3. Poverty and Fecundity
4. Lack of Human Beings and Abundance of Food
5. Social Conditions and Reproductive Ability
Conclusion