The intermediate sex : a study of some transitional types of men and women / by Edward Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929.
Date:
1909
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    son instead of forming a love-union with a female tended to contract romantic friendships with one of his own sex; while the apparently feminine would, instead of marrying in the usual way, de- vote herself to the love of another feminine. People of this kind {i.e., having this special variation of the love-sentiment) he called Urn- ings;t and though we are not obliged to accept his theory about the crosswise connexion between ‘ soul ’ and body,’ since at best these words are somewhat vague and indefinite; yet his work was important because it was one of the first attempts, in modern times, to recognise the existence of what might be called an Intermediate sex, and to give at any rate some explanation of it.J Since that time the subject has been widely studied and written about by scientific men and others, especially on the Continent (though in fFrom Uratios, heaven; his idea being that the Uranian love was of a higher order than the ordinary attachment. For further about Ulrichs and his theories see Appendix, pp. 157-159. X Charles G. Leland (“ Hans Breitmann ”) in his book “The Alternate Sex” (Wellby, 1904), insists much on the frequent combination of the characteris- tics of both sexes in remarkable men and women, and has a chapter on “The Female Mind in Man,” and another on “ The Male Intellect in Woman.”