In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality
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I. The Feminine Mind
1. The Maternal Instinct
2. Women's Intelligence
3. The Masculine Bag of Tricks
4. Why Women Fail
5. The Thing Called Intuition
II. The War Between the Sexes
6. How Marriages are Arranged
7. The Feminine Attitude
8. The Male Beauty
9. Men as Aesthetes
10. The Process of Delusion
11. Biological Considerations
12. Honour
13. Women and the Emotions
14. Pseudo-Anaesthesia
15. Mythical Anthropophagi
16. A Conspiracy of Silence
III. Marriage
17. Fundamental Motives
18. The Process of Courtship
19. The Actual Husband
20. The Unattainable Ideal
21. The Effect on the Race
22. Compulsory Marriage
23. Extra-Legal Devices
24. Intermezzo on Monogamy
25. Late Marriages
26. Disparate Unions
27. The Charm of Mystery
28. Woman as Wife
29. Marriage and the Law
30. The Emancipated Housewife
IV. Woman Suffrage
31. The Crowning Victory
32. The Woman Voter
33. A Glance Into the Future
34. The Suffragette
35. A Mythical Dare-Devil
36. The Origin of a Delusion
37. Women as Martyrs
38. Pathological Effects
39. Women as Christians
40. Piety as a Social Habit
41. The Ethics of Women
V. The New Age
42. The Transvaluation of Values
43. The Lady of Joy
44. The Future of Marriage
45. Effects of the War
46. The Eternal Romance
47. Apologia in Conclusion
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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was a German-American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. As a scholar Mencken is known for The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also earned him notoriety. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.
As an admirer of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was a detractor of religion, populism and representative democracy, which he believed was a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress, skeptical of economic theories and critical of osteopathic/chiropractic medicine.
