Abstract
THE author deals with the whole question of woman in three chapters, of which the first covers physical differences and the second the mental differences between the sexes. Current views are ably summarised. While accepting the position of the fundamental and absolute distinction of the two sexes and stating fairly the arguments for assigning woman an inferior or a superior position in the evolutionary scale, the author himself inclines to the former view. This comes out when he considers the development of the social position of woman. A concise historical survey, starting from the functional activities, pictures her social and economic progress as a gradual shackling of man, culminating in the ‘feminism up-to-date’ which has followed the War, in which, without stressing the point, he hints there is a message. The book, however, is written without bias as to fact and might serve either side of the argument.
The Opposite Sexes: a Study of Woman's Natural and Cultural History.
Dr.
Adolf
Heilborn
. Translated from the German by J. E. Pryde-Hughes. Pp. viii + 152 + 5 plates. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 6s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 122, 540 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122540b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122540b0