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.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. the: primitive sexual division of LABOUR—MAN CHIEFLY MILITANT, WOMAN CHIEFLY INDUSTRIAL—AMONG SAV- AGE RACES WOMEN NOT INFERIOR TO MEN—THE INDUSTRIES OF WOMEN GRADUALLY SHARED AND THEN MONOPOLISED BY MEN—THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN BARBARISM THE MEDIEVAL ATTITUDE TOWARDS WOMEN, AND ITS CAUSES—THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MYSTERY OF WOMANHOOD—THE MODERN STATUS OF WOMAN. “A MAN hunts, spears fish, fights, and sits about,” said an Australian Kurnai once;^ the rest is woman’s work. This may be accepted as a fair statement of the sexual division of labour among very primitive peoples. It is a division of labour which is alto- gether independent of race and climate. Among the Eskimo, in their snow-houses on the opposite side of the globe, there is the same division of labour as among the Australians.^ The tasks which demand a powerful development of muscle and bone, and the resulting ^ Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, Melbourne, 1880, p. 206. ^ See, for instance, H. H. Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States, vol. i. p. 66.
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