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Karezza, Ethics of Marriage Index

The Awakening of Adonis, detail, by John William Waterhouse [1900] (Public domain image)

KAREZZA

Ethics of Marriage

Second Edition

BY ALICE B. STOCKHAM, M.D.

Karezza is a book by Alice Bunker Stockham, MD (b. 1833). She was one of the first women medical school graduates in the USA and wrote a very popular book on women's reproductive health, which was translated into several languages. This later work, Karezza, elucidates "a theory of conjugal life, in which there is a love communion between husband and wife from which results a mastery of the physical." A highly-principled Quaker distressed by all the unwanted pregnancies among her patients, she also saw controlled intercourse as a way to prevent reckless procreation and raise spiritual awareness. This second edition was published in 1903.

This e-book has been prepared by www.reuniting.info, 2006, a site that has a lot of information closely related to the topic of this book.

For more on Stockham, see "Finding the Kingdom of Heaven in Your Own Hearts".