Sentence:  One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive , and women as submissive and yielding , that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned , and we condemn the <WSD>woman</WSD> as a coquette . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an adult female person (as opposed to a man)