Sexuality & Gender Studies
- Sexual Science
- 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. 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.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991