ABSTRACT
This muscular feebleness inspires in women an instinctive disgust of strenuous exercise; it draws them towards amusements and sedentary occupations. One could add that the separation of their hips makes walking more painful for women… This habitual feeling of weakness inspires less confidence… and as a woman finds herself less able to exist on her own, the more she needs to attract the attentions of others, to strengthen herself using those around her whom she judges most capable of protecting her.
