{"product_id":"women-and-men-by-amram-scheinfeld-1947-edition-chatto-and-windus-london-sociology-and-biology-hardcover","title":"Women and Men by Amram Scheinfeld | 1947 Edition | Chatto and Windus, London | Sociology and Biology | Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a phenomenal book given the time it was published and was part of our personal collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout: \u003c\/strong\u003eAmram Scheinfeld, the author of a very successful book, You and Heredity, has undertaken the challenging task of writing about such an old, controversial question as the differences between the sexes. The result is very interesting and readable and contains many informative tables and amusing drawings by the author. In the course of his courageous enterprise he soon found himself caught between biology and sociology.\u003cbr\u003eThe author gives us a quantity of well established, generally recognized facts. He tells us, for example, that the male horse has a much better racing record than the female. Does this mean that we are to go to the barnyard to discover the social significance, the life equipment, the proper functions on the human level, of males and females. The human male also has the prize fighter's championship. Did that give general superiority to John L. Sullivan over Theodore Roosevelt? Because the bee keeper tells us that the male bee destroys himself fertilizing the virgin queen, shall we assume that this has significance as disclosing man's unfitness for matrimony? The male cat has the reputation of being dangerous to his own offspring when they are feeble kittens. Does this tell us that there is an inherent antipathy to parenthood on the part of the human father? We can roam at will through wild and domestic animal life, collect such exam- ples as please us and use them to strengthen our own notion of what is characteristic of man and of woman, but our analogy is fallacious, since the most significant fact of all is that the human whom we seek to interpret is animal only in a narrow realm and one which has little value in helping us to define modern man and modern woman or to fix their proper roles.\u003cbr\u003eOriginally he intended to devote himself mainly to social factors as the decisive influence in shaping the character traits of men and women and 'to give only passing attention to biological sex differences'. But in the course of his laborious work he felt himself compelled to depart from 'the prevailing tendency among social scientists to regard differences between women and men in behavior, thought, temperament, and achievement, as chiefly the products of \"conditioning\"'. These 'current theories' began to appear to him very questionable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Hardcover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eGold gilt inscription title over spine, Near fine copy with minimal marking on end page and previous owner’s stamp on title page. Shelf wear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages: \u003c\/strong\u003e394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrice:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rs 2650\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good-Ol Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43509996716091,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/goodolbooks.com\/products\/women-and-men-by-amram-scheinfeld-1947-edition-chatto-and-windus-london-sociology-and-biology-hardcover","provider":"Good-Ol Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}