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Author Russett, Cynthia Eagle.

Title Sexual science : the Victorian construction of womanhood / Cynthia Eagle Russett.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.309 R968S    Check Shelf
Description 245 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [209]-236.
Contents How to tell the girls from the boys -- Up and down the phyletic ladder -- Hairy men and beautiful women -- The machinery of the body -- The physiological division of labor -- The Victorian paradigm erodes -- Women and the cosmic nightmare.
Note Includes index.
Subject Sex differences.
Sex role -- History -- 19th century.
Women's studies -- History -- 19th century.
Indexed Term Great Britain Sex roles, history
Subject History, 19th Century.
Identification, Psychological
Sex Characteristics.
Women.
History of Medicine.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1830-1900
Geschichte 1840-1900
ISBN 067480290X alkaline paper $25.00
9780674802902 alkaline paper
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