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The Intermediate Sex
A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

by Edward Carpenter

Publisher: George Allen (London),
S Clarke (Manchester), UK

Year


1912       third edition
Cover / size: Hardback, h 19.2 cm * 12.8 cm / 176 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000467


£40.00

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Carpenter: The Intermediate Sex






Condition: Good

Boards (light green, gilt lettering): some stains and marks, wear to edges, particularly spine, corners curved inwards, one corner worse than others. Top leans forward slightly. Page edges: some crushing and creasing of corners. Ink and pencil inscriptions on endpapers. Endpapers browning but pages otherwise clean.


Content:

Seminal early work on homosexuality. Chapter Titles: Introductory; The Intermediate Sex; The Homogenic Attachment; Affection in Education; The Place of the Uranian in Society; Appendix.


Background / Biography:

Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, socialist philosopher, anthologist, and early gay activist. continued on Wikipedia



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Quote from this book

"The subject dealt with in this book is one of great, and one may say growing, importance. Whether it is that the present period is one of large increase in the numbers of men and women of an intermediate or mixed temperament, or whether it merely is that it is a period in which more than usual attention happens to be accorded to them, the fact certainly remains that the subject has greate actuality and is pressing upon us from all sides. It is recognised that anyhow the number of persons occupying an intermediate position between the two sexes is very great, that they play a considerable part in general society, and that they necessarily present and embody many problems which, both for their own sakes and that of society, demand solution. The literature of the question has in consequence already grown to be very extensive, especially on the Continent, and includes a great quantity of scientific works, medical treatises, literary essays, romances, historical novels, poetry etc. And it is now generally admitted that some knowledge and enlightened understanding of the subject is greatly needed for the use of certain classes - as, for instance, medical men, teachers, parents, magistrates, judges and the like."
opening paragraph, Chapter One





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