Sex and Education
by Howe, Julia Ward (editor)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874. First Edition. Very Good +. Original brick publisher's cloth binding stamped in blind with gilt to spine. Shelfwear to crown and foot of spine with some loss to cloth; gentle rubbing to boards and corners. Joints cracked but still holding well. Coated brown endpapers. Previous ownership signature of Frank X. Henke on front endpaper. Bookseller's stamp and blue ink stain to inner margin of title page. Internally a clean and complete copy of this rare feminist work, which is the only copy on the market and and has never before appeared at auction.
Bringing together eminent women educators, activists, and authors, Sex and Education is a take-down of Dr. E. H. Charles Clarke's book Sex in Education. In arguing that education caused female hysteria, sterility, and other physical disabilities, Dr. Clarke drew the anger and disdain of educated women throughout America. "Despite Dr. Clarke's prominent position in this community," Julia Ward Howe explains in the book's introduction," we do not feel compelled to regard him as the supreme authority on the subjects of which he treats." The present volume was, however, compiled by writers who are authorities -- educated women whose very existence undercuts Clarke's position. "Most of the writers are experience in the office of tuition, and in the observation of its effects. All of them have had occasion to form their own theories of what is desirable for the improvement of the condition of women. The facts and experience of their lives have led them far from Dr. Clarke's conclusions." Opening with essays from Howe, Elizabeth Phelps, and Mrs. Horace Mann, the collection concludes with a series of testimonials from renowned universities including Vassar, Oberlin, Michigan, and Antioch.
Not in Krichmar. Very Good +.
Bringing together eminent women educators, activists, and authors, Sex and Education is a take-down of Dr. E. H. Charles Clarke's book Sex in Education. In arguing that education caused female hysteria, sterility, and other physical disabilities, Dr. Clarke drew the anger and disdain of educated women throughout America. "Despite Dr. Clarke's prominent position in this community," Julia Ward Howe explains in the book's introduction," we do not feel compelled to regard him as the supreme authority on the subjects of which he treats." The present volume was, however, compiled by writers who are authorities -- educated women whose very existence undercuts Clarke's position. "Most of the writers are experience in the office of tuition, and in the observation of its effects. All of them have had occasion to form their own theories of what is desirable for the improvement of the condition of women. The facts and experience of their lives have led them far from Dr. Clarke's conclusions." Opening with essays from Howe, Elizabeth Phelps, and Mrs. Horace Mann, the collection concludes with a series of testimonials from renowned universities including Vassar, Oberlin, Michigan, and Antioch.
Not in Krichmar. Very Good +.
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- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2537
- Title
- Sex and Education
- Author
- Howe, Julia Ward (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1874
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- Cracked
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- First Edition
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- Title Page
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- Gilt
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