The sexes in science and history : an inquiry into the Dogma of woman's inferiority to man / Eliza Burt Gamble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gamble, Eliza Burt, author.

Series:

Women's issues.

Women's issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History.

Women.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Snova, [2020]

Summary:

The object of this book is to set forth the principal data brought forward by naturalists bearing on the subject of the origin and development of the two lines of sexual demarcation, and by means of the facts observed by explorers among peoples in the various stages of development, to trace, so far as possible, the effect of such differentiation upon the individual, and upon the subsequent growth of human society.

Contents:

Preface to new edition

Preface to first edition.

Part I: The theory of evolution

Chapter 1. Development of the organism

Chapter 2. The origin of sex differences

Chapter 3. Male organic defects

Chapter 4. The development of the social instincts and the moral sense

Chapter 5. The supremacy of the male.

Part II: Prehistoric society

Chapter 6. Method of investigation

Chapter 7. The relations of the sexes among early mankind

Chapter 8. The Gens: women under gentile institutions

Chapter 9. The origin of marriage

Chapter 10. The mother-right

Chapter 11. Theories to explain wife-capture.

Part III: Early historic society

Chapter 12. Early historic society founded on the Gens

Chapter 13. Women in early historic times

Chapter 14. Ancient Sparta

Chapter 15. Athenian women

Chapter 16. Roman law, Roman women, and Christianity

Chapter 17. The Renaissance

Chapter 18. Conclusion

Index

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5361-7041-0