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The Sexes in Science and History / An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to man

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A sustained challenge to the dogma of female inferiority that applies evolutionary theory, comparative biology, and cross-cultural evidence to argue that the female organism often represents an advanced line of development. The work critiques scientific prejudices, surveys observed sexual dimorphism and purported male defects, and analyzes how social instincts and moral sensibilities evolved alongside sex differentiation. Drawing on ethnography and historical reconstruction, it traces prehistoric and early historic institutions, including gens, mother-right, marriage origins, and theories of wife capture, to show how male ascendancy emerged. The prose combines theoretical discussion with case studies to reassess assumptions about sex capacity and social consequences.

The Sexes in Science
and
History

An Inquiry into the Dogma of Woman’s
Inferiority to Man

By

Eliza Burt Gamble

A revised edition of “The Evolution of Woman”

G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1916

Copyright, 1893
Under the title The Evolution of Woman, by
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

Copyright, 1916
for the revised edition, by
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press, New York