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100 1 _aGoddard, Gloria,
_d1897-1978
245 1 0 _aWomanhood
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aLittle blue book ; no. 846
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-09
505 0 _aThe opening door of womanhood -- The origin of love -- Mating -- The proper mate -- Proper education -- The price of error -- Idealism.
508 _aTim 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)
520 _aWomanhood 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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927
653 _aWomen -- Social and moral questions
653 _aMarried women -- Psychology
700 1 _aHaldeman-Julius, E.
_q(Emanuel),
_d1888-1951
830 0 _aLittle blue book ; no. 846
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/womanhoodfactsof846godd/page/n1/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78407
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