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The Intermediate Sex

Edward Carpenter

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .And it may be supposed that we may draw the same conclusion with regard to women of this class—namely, that the majority of them do not exhibit pronounced masculine habits. In fact, while these extreme cases are of the greatest value from a scientific point of view as marking tendencies and limits of development in certain directions, it would be a serious mistake to look upon them as representative cases of the whole phases of human evolution concerned.

If now we come to what may be called the more normal type of the Uranian man, we find a man who, while possessing thoroughly masculine powers of mind and body, combines with them the tenderer and more emotional soul-nature of the woman—and sometimes to a remarkable degree. Such men, as said, are often muscular and well-built, and not distinguishable in exterior structure and the carriage of body from others of their own33 sex; but emotionally they are extremely complex, tender, sensitive, pitif. . . Read More

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2.00
- Hannah - Jul 11, 2014

It’s an early 20th century work on sexuality and gender orientation, and I read it because in Regeneration by Pat Barker, a character mentions it as a book that “saved” him. They go on to discuss why - it made him see that he “wasn’t just a freak. That there was a positive side.” This conversational

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- Misty - Mar 08, 2023

Given that this was first written over a century ago it is an amazing book [or, to be more accurate, collection of essays/papers]

It is not an easy read to a modern reader, not for the content or views expressed but simply that the language is unfamiliar to a late 20thC reader, let alone a 21stC one.

5.00
- Marius - Sep 28, 2019

A good, already canonical, book on sexuality and gender studies. A pleasure to read it again.

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- Maxine - Jun 12, 2017

Much more open-minded and interesting than I was prepared for. Carpenter was revolutionary in some ways: he argues that most homosexual individuals are "normal" in a time when many sexologists believed they were pathological. More, he differentiates between sexual predators and homosexuals; "real" h

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