Series[UMA-SRE-20140039] RESEARCH AND REFERENCE CARD INDEXESAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014003900371Scope and Content[These cards have been digitised back to front] Variation on section heading: Body. Reference: The works of Aristotle in four parts 4th ed. Embellished with several fine engravings. London: printed for the booksellers 1822. 16: Thus women's secrets I've surveyed and let them see how curiously they're made, and that, tho they are different sexes be, yet in the whole thay are the same as we. For those that have the strictest searches been, find women are but men turned outside in; and men, if they but cast their eyes about, may find they're women with their inside out. 17: The use and action of the clitoris in women is like that of the penis or yard in men, that is erection; its extreme being like that of the glands in men, the seat of the greatest pleasure in the act of copulation, so is this of the clitoris in women and therefore called the sweetness of love, and the jury of venery. The action and use of the neck of the womb is the same with that of the penis, that is erection... 21: hence tis a virgin her desires can't smother, but restless is - 'till she be made a mother. 18: Matrimony in the present age is looked upon as a most unsupportable yoke: wives and husbands are accounted the greatest clogs and burdens to those who give up the rein' to their unbridled appetites. Back of card - 22: a stale virgin (if such a thing there be) being looked upon like an old almanack, out of date... 28: Now my fair bride, now will I storm the mint of love and joy, and rifle all that's isn't. Now my unfranchis'd hand on ev'ry side, Shall o'er thy naked polish'd iv'ry slide. Freely shall now my longing eyes behold, Thy bared snow and thy undrained gold. No curtain now, tho' of transparent lawn, Shall be before thy virgin treasure drawn. I will enjoy thee now, my fairest; come, and fly with me to love's Elysium; my rudder with thy bold hand, like a try'd and skilful pilot, thou shalt steer and guide, My bark in love's dark channel, where it shall Dance as the bounding waves do rise and fall, Whilst my tall pinnace in the Cyprian streight Rides safe anchor and unlades the freight. 217: If any ask if the menstrues be not of a hurtful quality, how can it cause such venomous effcts? as if it fell upon treees and herbs, it makes the one barren, and mortifies the other. I answer, this malignity is contracted in the womb; for the woman wanting native heat to digest this superfluity, sends it to the matrix, where seating itself till the mouth of the womb be dilated, it becomes corrupt and mortified...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
