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  WOMAN AND SOCIALISM

  BY

  AUGUST BEBEL


  Jubilee [Decor: 50th] Edition


  AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY
  META L. STERN (HEBE)


  SOCIALIST LITERATURE CO.
  15 Spruce Street, New York
  1910






  Copyright, 1910
  by the
  SOCIALIST LITERATURE COMPANY
  New York




  [Printer’s Logo]
  The Co-Operative Press, 15 Spruce St., New York






CONTENTS


                                                             Page

  Introduction                                                  3

  WOMAN IN THE PAST.

  Chapter I.--_The Position of Woman in Primeval Society_       9
      1. Chief Epochs of Primeval History                       9
      2. Family Forms                                          14
      3. The Matriarchate                                      20

  Chapter II.--_Conflict between Matriarchate and
         Patriarchate_                                         28
      1. Rise of the Patriarchate                              28
      2. Traces of the Matriarchate in Greek Myths and
         Dramas                                                34
      3. Legitimate Wives and Courtesans in