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SEX AND COMMON-SENSE
by Royden, A. Maude
- Used
- Condition
- Olive cloth. Light shelfwear. Very good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putman's Sons, 1923. Olive cloth. Light shelfwear. Very good. 8vo. xvii+211pp.+ads. Frontispiece with author portrait, biography printed on tissue overlay, preface to the American edition, foreword. Chapters: The Old Problem Intensified by the Disproportion of the Sexes; A Solution of the Problem of the Unmarried; Consideration of Other Solutions of the Problem of the Disproportion of the Sexes; The True Basis of Morality; The Moral Standard of the Future: What Should It be?; A Plea for Light; Friendship; Misunderstandings; Further Misunderstandings: The Need for Sex Chivalry; "The Sin of the Bridegroom"; Common-Sense and Divorce Law Reform. Bio as follows: "MISS MAUDE ROYDEN. Royden, Agnes Maude, Assistant Preacher at the City Temple, London, 1918-20; Founder with Dr. Percy Dearmer of the Fellowship Services at Kensington; born 1876, youngest girl of the late Sir Thomas Royden, First Baronet of Frankby Hall, Birkenhead. Education: Cheltenham Ladies' College; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Worked at the Victoria Women's Settlement, Liverpool, for three years, and then in the country parish of Luffenham; Lecturer in English Literature to the Oxford University Extension Delegacy; joined the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, 1908; on Executive Committee, 1908; edited the Common Cuase till 1914; wrote and spoke chiefly on the economic, ethical, and religious aspects of the Women's Movement; resigned executive, 1914." Not in Goodland.
Synopsis
Of all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that of the relations of the sexes. This is natural. It touches us all and we have made rather a mess of it! We want to know why, and we want to do better. We resent being the sport of circumstance and perhaps we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed "the expense of spirit in a waste of shame."It is not the abnormal or the bizarre that interests most of us to-day. It is not into the by-ways of vice that we seek to penetrate. It is the normal exercise of a normal instinct by normal people that interests us: and it is of this that I have tried to write and speak. The curiosities of depravity are for the physician and the psychologist to discuss and cure. Ordinary men and women want first to know how to live ordinary human lives on a higher level and after a nobler pattern than before. They want, I think, - and I want, - to grow up, but to grow rightly, beautifully, humanely.And I believe the first essential is to realize that the sex-problem, as it is called, is the problem of something noble, not something base. It is not a "disagreeable duty" to know our own natures and understand our own instincts: it is a joy. The sex-instinct is not "the Fall of Man"; neither is it an instance of divine wisdom on which moralists could, if they had only been consulted in time, greatly have improved. It is a thing noble in essence. It is the development of the higher, not the lower, creation. It is the asexual which is the lower, and the sexually differentiated which is the higher organism.
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- Bookseller
- Alta-Glamour Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86124
- Title
- SEX AND COMMON-SENSE
- Author
- Royden, A. Maude
- Book Condition
- Used - Olive cloth. Light shelfwear. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G.P. Putman's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
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Alta-Glamour Inc.
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About Alta-Glamour Inc.
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