Man and woman : a study of human secondary sexual characters / by Havelock Ellis.

  • Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Man and woman : a study of human secondary sexual characters / by Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PAGE The Bladder—Susceptibility to Fright—Mental Sugges- tibility—Obsessions—Emotional Causation of Disease pre- dominates in Women—Destructive Tendencies—'' Breakings out—The Source of these—The Congenital Exhaustibility of Women—The Advantages of Women's Affectability— Anaemia and Affectability—The Greater Affectability of Women to some extent the Result of Circumstances, to some extent Organic. CHAPTER XIV. The Artistic Impulse - 364 The Industries arose in Women's Hands, the Arts in Men's— Pottery—Tattooing — Painting—Sculpture—Music — Why Women have failed in Music—Metaphysics—Mysticism— Poetry—Fiction—Why Women have succeeded in Fiction—, The Supremacy of Women in Acting—The Artistic Impulse generally is more marked in Men—The Cause of this. CHAPTER XV. Morbid Psychic Phenomena - - - 378 Suicide—Factors that Influence its Frequency—Sexual Propor- tions in Europe—The Influence of Age—The Causes of Suicide—Methods of Suicide—Men prefer Active, Women Passive Methods—Racial Sexual Differences. Insanity—In Various Parts of the World—Causes of Insanity —Forms of Insanity—Alcoholic Insanity and General Para- lysis increasing among Women—General Paralysis as a typically Masculine Insanity—Insanity and Civilisation. Criminality—Difficulties in the way of the study of Sexual Differ- ences—Why Women are less Criminal than Men—The Special Forms of Women's Criminality—Criminality and Civilisation. CHAPTER XVI. The Variational Tendency of Men - - 410 Most Abnormalities more common in Men—The Influence of the Pelvis on the side of Mediocrity—Still-born Children— Sexual Proportion of Congenital Malformations—Muscular Abnormalities—The Ear and its Abnormalities—Psychic