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100 1 _aFielding, William J.
_q(William John),
_d1886-1973
245 1 0 _aWoman's sexual life
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aLittle blue book ; no. 689
490 1 _a[Knowledge of life series]
490 1 _aRational sex series ; v. 6
500 _aLater published in the Knowledge of life series.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-29
508 _aTim Miller, Sam Lamb and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _aWoman's sexual life by William J. Fielding is a popular‑scientific sexology treatise written in the early 20th century. It explores women’s sexuality as a biological, psychological, and social phenomenon, outlining how physiology and emotion interact across puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, menopause, and mental health. The book contrasts male and female sexual instincts, emphasizing women’s broader, more emotionally inflected responses linked to the sympathetic nervous system and to motherhood. It examines marriage as the chief determinant of healthy sexual life; discusses abstinence, sexual satisfaction, and their effects; and surveys social factors such as prostitution, economic pressures, age disparity in partners, and seasonal or climatic influences on fertility. Fielding outlines conception timing and the bodily and emotional shifts of pregnancy. He reframes menstruation as the visible crest of a monthly systemic rhythm, challenges ancient taboos, details variation in menarche by climate and race, and catalogs cyclical changes (mood, circulation, sensory shifts), including vicarious menstruation. On menopause, he explains ovarian and hormonal changes, typical ages and patterns of onset, overestimated dangers, and the persistence of sexual desire and attractiveness beyond the reproductive years. Finally, drawing on contemporary psychiatry, he links many nervous disorders—especially in adolescence, enforced continence, and unsatisfying intercourse—to sexual conflict and repression, arguing for informed, moderate, and mutually considerate sexual relations as a foundation of women’s health. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1925
653 _aWomen -- Sexual behavior
700 1 _aHaldeman-Julius, E.
_q(Emanuel),
_d1888-1951
830 0 _aLittle blue book ; no. 689
830 0 _a[Knowledge of life series]
830 0 _aRational sex series ; v. 6
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78569
999 _c119287
_d119287