Index
Abbey, Ruth, 10 –11, 229 – 45, 266
Abolitionism, 4 –5, 271
Abortion, 7, 14n3, 168
Ackerly, Brooke, 241
Adam, 46 – 47, 51n, 52, 107, 115,
183
Adams, John, 2
Adultery, 98, 112, 224 –25
Affection: and care for the sick,
156, 156n; and chastity, 152; of
children and youth, 135, 187,
188 – 89, 190, 193, 220; clinging
affection of ignorance, 220 –21;
and decorum, 125; and domestic
duties of women, 197; and duties,
171–72, 182, 203; and equality,
223; and esteem, 123; and friend-
ship, 100, 146, 157; gallantry or
vanity versus, 127; happiness and
well-regulated affections, 172; and
individuality of character, 97; and
intellectual pursuits by women,
151; libertine’s disregard for,
224 –25; in marriage, 24, 73, 95,
171, 172, 206, 225; of marriage-
able young women, 201; men’s
search for, 154; and motherhood,
110, 167, 171, 172, 180 – 82;
parental affection, 180 – 82, 184,
186, 225; public affections, 193;
and reason, 181, 186; and religion,
141; respect producing true affec-
tion, 179; romantic view of, 101;
Rousseau on, 115, 117; severity as
proof of, 95; and sexual relation-
ships, 167; spaniel-like affection
of women, 171; strength of, 97n;
and understanding, 224; and
virtue, 130, 146; water imagery
for, 175; women’s independence as
basis for, 171. See also Friendship;
Love
Africa, 98
All the Works of Epictetus (trans. by
Carter), 248
Analytical Review, 253
Angels, 79n, 122
Anger, 72, 111–12, 129, 140, 164,
187, 200
Animals: cruelty to, 203 – 4, 245n26;
dogs as pets, 197, 204; horses,
221–22, 226; human emotions
about, 51; maturation of, 97; and
survival of the fi ttest, 98; women
compared with, 71; young ani-
mals, 68, 155n, 184
Anthony, Susan B., 272
Anti-Jacobin discourse, 2, 257
Appeal to the Men of Great Britain
in Behalf of Women (Hays), 257
Appetites: diffi culty in restrain-
ing, 214; happiness of, 136; and
masculinity, 166 – 69; as natural,
158 –59, 167; passions versus, 56,