Goddard, Gloria 1897-1978 creator Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel) 1888-1951 text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats Womanhood by Gloria Goddard is a sex-education and social guidance tract written in the late 1920s. It explains the passage from girlhood to womanhood and advocates frank, science-based instruction about sex, love, and marriage, urging women’s equality and informed choice in mating. The book moves from adolescent development and menstrual health to the origins of love—distinguishing natural, romantic, and marital forms—and adopts a psychological lens (including Freud’s stages) to frame maturation. It argues for women’s right to select partners, condemns the double standard, and urges continued “courtship” within marriage. Emphasizing wise mate selection, it promotes eugenic caution and birth control, recommends delaying marriage until emotional and physical maturity, and calls for clear sex education in schools and at home, along with practical “love education.” It warns against youthful excess, outlines risks of venereal disease, and proposes a modern sexual morality based on mutual freedom, companionate unions, and efficient, scientifically informed home and child-rearing practices, while dismantling chivalric myths that kept women ignorant and subordinate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) The opening door of womanhood -- The origin of love -- Mating -- The proper mate -- Proper education -- The price of error -- Idealism. Release date is 2026-04-09 Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: Girard: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927 Women -- Social and moral questions Married women -- Psychology HQ Girard: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927 https://archive.org/details/womanhoodfactsof846godd/page/n1/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78407 https://archive.org/details/womanhoodfactsof846godd/page/n1/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78407 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134822.0 78407