The Sexes in Science and History: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Sexes in Science and History, credited to Eliza Burt Gamble, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Sexes in Science and History by Eliza Burt Gamble. Read in English by Rapunzelina In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to man", Eliza Burt Gamble uses Darwin's theory of evolution and other scientific information to compare the development of the male and female organisms and describe their differences. Introducing the role of the woman in prehistoric society, we see how that changed through the course of history, from evidence both in less advanced tribes and in civilized historic societies, to the marked progress in the social and economic conditions of women in the time this edition was published (1916). - Summary by Rapunzelina

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Sexes in Science and History
• Author credits: Eliza Burt Gamble
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 9:28:31

Catalogue topics

• history
• discrimination
• gender
• sexism
• woman's role
• the stronger sex
• gens

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 7:27
2. 01 - Development of the Organism — 16:13
3. 02 - The Origin of Sex Differences — 30:15
4. 03 - Male Organic Defects — 40:56
5. 04 - The Development of the Social Instincts and the Moral Sense — 15:42
6. 05 - The Supremacy of the Male — 29:02
7. 06 - Method of Investigation — 12:04
8. 07 - The Relation of the Sexes among Early Mankind — 24:13
9. 08 - The Gens - Women under Gentile Institutions — 50:00
10. 09 - The Origin of Marriage — 1:02:36
11. 10 - The Mother-Right — 16:53
12. 11 - Theories to Explain Wife-Capture — 34:51
13. 12 - Early Historic Society Founded on the Gens — 38:39
14. 13 - Women in Early Historic Times — 24:03
15. 14 - Ancient Sparta — 45:18
16. 15 - Athenian Women — 40:14
17. 16 - Roman Law, Roman Women, and Christianity — 28:58
18. 17 - The Renaissance — 18:46
19. 18 - Conclusion — 32:21

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