Man and woman : a study of human secondary sexual characters / by Havelock Ellis.

  • Havelock Ellis
Date:
1894
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Credit: Man and woman : a study of human secondary sexual characters / by Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    xu Dreams—Women as Dreamers among Primitive Races—In the Middle Ages—In Modern Times—Results obtained by Heer- wagen, Jaslrow, and Child. Hallucinations in the Sane—Sidgwick's Investigations—Greater Prevalence among Women. 1'he Action of Ancesthelics-Nitrous Oxide—Silk's Observations- Abnormal Action under Anaesthesia occurs on the whole chiefly in Women. Meteorologic Sensibility—Suicide—Insanity — Conclusion as to Sexual Difference doubtful—Periodicity in Growth. Neurasthenia and Hysteria — Both more frequent in Women — Description of Neurasthenia—Definition of Hysteria—Its Characteristics — Suggestibility—Relative frequency in the Sexes. Religious Hypnotic Phenomena—Nature of the part played by Women in Religious Movements—Shakers—Theosophists— Dancing Mania — Camisards — Modern Hysterical Religious Epidemics—Christs—Skoptsy—Hypnotic Religious Pheno- mena among Uncivilised Races—Nature and Causation. CHAPTER XIII, The Affectability of Women - - - - What is an Emotion ?—Readier Response of the Vaso-molor Vascular System in Women—Physiological and Pathological Evidence—The Heart—Blushing—Affectability of the Muscu- lar System—Facial Expression—The Iris—The Bladder— Susceptibility to Fright—Emotional Causation of Disease predominates in Women—Destructive Tendencies—Break- ings out—The Source of these—The Congenital Exhausti- bility of Women—The Advantages of Women's Affectability —AnKmia and Affectability—The greater Affectability of Women to some extent the Result of Circumstances, to some extent Organic. CHAPTER XIV. The Artistic Impulse The Industries arose in Women's Hands, the Arts in Men's— Pottery — Tattooing—Painting — Sculpture — Music — Why Women have failed in Music—Metaphysics—Mysticism—
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