Series[UMA-SRE-20140039] RESEARCH AND REFERENCE CARD INDEXESAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014003900165Scope and ContentNotes: Heavily dependent on German anthrop-natural selectsh?-katabolism Citing pp. 18 [Anthropologists indeed regard the woman as intermediate in development between the child and the man…], 38 [ "more dis vulnerable"? to pain hence one cause higher male suicide], 51 [While woman remains nearer the infantile type, man approaches more to the senile...], 176-7 [sexuality as human, as play, as imaginative preoccupation, 192 [..I have pointed out that the interest of man is not held nor the emotions aroused when the objects of attention have grown so familiar in consciousness that the problematical and elusive elements disappear;... Notes continue to back of card: Citing pp. 196[...although the intimate association and daily familiarity of family life produce affection, they are not favourable to the genesis of romantic love...] & 234-235 [ charm the male...so long as woman retained her position of economic usefulness and her quasi-independence, she had no great problem, for there never was a chance in primitive society, any more than animal society, that a woman should go unmated...] Reference: Thomas, W I 1907, Sex and society: studies in the psychology of sex, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0039 Unit 0007Copyright StatusUniversity copyrightConditions of Use and ReproductionCopyright owned by University of Melbourne. For information about ordering a copy of this image contact the University of Melbourne Archives: archives@archives.unimelb.edu.auMenuBrowse digitised items | Available online
Greer, Germaine, Thomas W.I. Sex and Society Univ. Chicago Press 1907 (1968-1970), [UMA-ITE-2014003900165]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 02/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/342002
