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Sexual Science: The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood Cynthia Russett
Sexual Science: The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood
Cynthia Russett
The spectacle presented in Russett’s 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.
256 pages, index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 1, 1991 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674802919 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 234 × 20 mm · 392 g |
| Language | English |