Sexual Science The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood

Name: Sexual Science The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood
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ISBN: 9780674802919

ISBN-10: 0674802918

ISBN-13: 9780674802919

Edition: 1989

Authors: Cynthia Russett

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One scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented, in Cynthia Russett's splendid book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men--thereby providing, along with "savages" and "idiots," an evolutionary buffer between men and animals--is by turns appalling, amusing, and saddening. Surveying the work of real scientists as well as the products of more dubious minds, Russett has produced a learned yet immensely enjoyable chapter in the annals of human folly. At the turn of the century science was successfully challenging the social authority of religion; scientists wielded a power no other group commanded.…

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



How to Tell The Girls from The Boys



Up and Down The Phyletic Ladder



Hairy Men and Beautiful Women



The Machinery of The Body



The Physiological Division of Labor



The Victorian Paradigm Erodes



Women and The Cosmic Nightmare


Notes


Index