Book Description: Geo. H. Napheys, The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife, and Mother. Philadelphia, New York, Boston: George Maclean, 1871, 322 indexed pages. Second Edition. 5” x 7 ½”. Gilt title on green boards. Tattering to cloth along spine and tips. String binding in very good condition with clean pages throughout, Over-all in good to very good condition. An excellent book for anyone wishing to study historical attitudes from a patriarchal perspective on women and sex. Author, who furnishes numerous testimonials from an earlier edition, discusses such topics as “marriage o cousins, the effects of marriage on woman and man, on ‘choosing a husband,’ . . .on the right time of year to marry, on the wedding tour,” etc. Also “salutary hints on the ‘wedding night, . . .shall husband and wife occupy the same bed? What kind of bed is the most useful? The dignity and propriety of the sexual instinct, its indulgence restraint and physiological laws, &c are decorously but plainly treated.” Etc.