SEXUAL INVERSION: Volume 1 in His STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX series
by Ellis, Havelock
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Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, 1908. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; xi, 272 pages, brown cloth, gilt spine title flaked, inked name
With a new preface for this edition. "I had not at first proposed to devote a whole volume to sexual inversion. ... But I found in time that several persons for whom I felt respect and admiration were the congenital subjects of this abnormality [including his wife, Edith]. At the same time I realized that in England, more than in any other country, the law and public opinion to combine to place a heavy penal burden and a severe social stigma on the manifestations of an instinct which to those persons who possess it frequently appears natural and normal. It was clear, therefore, that the matter was in special need of elucidation and discussion." - Preface. Appendix E tells the remarkable nature and nurture of Hungarian Countess Sarolta V. who lived and married as a man.
With a new preface for this edition. "I had not at first proposed to devote a whole volume to sexual inversion. ... But I found in time that several persons for whom I felt respect and admiration were the congenital subjects of this abnormality [including his wife, Edith]. At the same time I realized that in England, more than in any other country, the law and public opinion to combine to place a heavy penal burden and a severe social stigma on the manifestations of an instinct which to those persons who possess it frequently appears natural and normal. It was clear, therefore, that the matter was in special need of elucidation and discussion." - Preface. Appendix E tells the remarkable nature and nurture of Hungarian Countess Sarolta V. who lived and married as a man.
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- Title
- SEXUAL INVERSION
- Author
- Ellis, Havelock
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
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- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
- Publisher
- F. A. Davis Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- sexuality homosexuality banned book medicine medico-legal psychology walt whitman hermaphroditism lesbianism law tramps countess sarolta v count sandor transgender transvestism
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