Banishing the Beast
Subtitle: Feminism, Sex and Morality
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Published: March 20, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781860646812
Subjects: Ethical issues & debates; Feminism; History of specific subjects; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; International - General; Business & Economics; Sociology; Textbooks; Business/Economics; United Kingdom, Great Britain; General; Art / Popular Culture
First sentence: In November 1885, a spinster mathematics teacher wrote to a bachelor professor of applied mathematics and mechanics of her impressions on the divide between the sexes: Men seem to say: by long descent, by unparalleled power, by race necessity, physical instincts must be obeyed . . .