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What a young girl ought to know (title page)
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| Title | What a young girl ought to know (title page) |
| Author | Wood-Allen, Mary, 1841-1908 |
| Publisher | Vir Publishing Company
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| Publisher Location | United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia |
| Publication Date | 1897 |
| Notes | The first few pages of this book contain sixteen uncolored portraits of eminent educators. The rest of the book is unillustrated.
Part of the Self and Sex series for women.
This book is "dedicated to the thousands of girls whose honest inquiries concerning the origin of life and being deserve such a truthful, intelligent, and satisfactory answer as will save them from ignorance, enable them to avoid vice, and deliver them from solitary and social sins." This book is written as a series of conversations between a mother and daughter, and is intended as a guide for mothers to show how "the physiological facts of reproduction may be clothed in delicate language and surrounded by an atmosphere of sacredness and self-reverence that will render the knowledge thus obtained a guarantee of right conduct."
Specific topics covered in this book include: The question of the origin of life; The seeds of plants contain the next generation of plants; The pollen, the father, the ovary, the mother, and the flower, the family home; The world a wonder ball of treasures; How fish reproduce but never know their children; Human babies the most helpless, and this develops love and parental tenderness; The child a part of the parent, and bears a record of parents' life, thought and conduct; The children of today, making the characters of the children of the future; Preventable diseases; Why we need to bathe; Happy thoughts create life forces; Sitting stooped over produces evil results; One soul lives in man's body, another lives in woman's body, but both are souls; and, Housework good exercise;
A full text version of this title is available at: http://www.archive.org/details/whatyounggirloug00wooduoft. |
| Contextual Notes | Mary Wood-Allen was a doctor, author, and National Superintendent of the Purity Department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. This book was widely acclaimed and "received high praise from many contemporary physician reviewers" (Source: "Pediatrics" Vol. 55, No. 4, April 1975, pp. 538). |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Sex instruction for women |
| Category | Moral instruction
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| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL0376 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection. HQ51.W65 1897 |
| Object Type | Book
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| Physical Description | 190 p.: illustrated; 17.5 x 11.5 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Photographed from original book in TIFF format using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/EOS 400D, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2009. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit checklist A.60 |
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