Sexual Science: The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood by Cynthia Russett

Sexual Science: The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood

Cynthia Russett

256 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science challenging informative medium-paced
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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 "savag...

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