Womanhood and Race-Regeneration

Moffat, Yard and Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No DJ - as issued. Vintage Original Hardcover, (NOT A REPRINT) First Edition 1912 Moffat, Yard and Company New York 54 pages. Very Good+, no DJ - as issued. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to olive green cloth boards with white titles - two bottom corners have tiny bumps. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Three chapters: The Training of Women; Women's Influence on the Race; Women as Citizens. A very interesting insight into Victorian thinking and fears that could never be published today. The author - Dame Mary Ann Dacomb Scharlieb, DBE (nee Bird; (18 June 1845 November 1930) was a pioneer British female physician and gynecologist in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. She had worked in India and by her persistence she returned to the UK to become a qualified doctor. She returned to Madras and eventually lectured in London. She was the first woman to be elected to the honorary visiting staff of a hospital in the UK and one of the most distinguished women in medicine of her generation. As a feminist she drew heavily on the theories of race superiority and argued that it was only natural that greater equality between the sexes in Britain should be achieved owing to their racial similarity. As a matter of fact, she argued, there is more physical, mental and moral resemblance "between an Englishman and an Englishwoman than there is between an Englishman and a Bantu or Hottentot man. The introduction is by Rev Sir James Marchant FRSE FLS FRAS KBE LLD (1867 - 1956) , a British eugenicist, social reformer and author. He was leader of the National Vigilance Association, concerned with social morality, and also the Director of the National Council of Public Morals. A very handsome copy. LOC SSS-19