Sex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex

E-text prepared by Audrey Longhurst, William Flis, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

1907
Fourth Impression 1913

These studies have been published in various journals at different times. They are reprinted together because there is some demand for them, and they are not easily accessible. In preparing them for publication in the present form, some of them have been expanded and all of them have been revised.
While each study is complete in itself, the general thesis running through all of them is the same—that the differences in bodily habit between men and women, particularly the greater strength, restlessness, and motor aptitude of man, and the more stationary condition of woman, have had an important influence on social forms and activities, and on the character and mind of the two sexes.
Organic Differences in the Sexes appeared in the American Journal of Sociology , III, 31ff., with the title, On a Difference in the Metabolism of the Sexes; Sex and Primitive Social Control, ibid. , III, 754ff.; Sex and Primitive Industry, ibid. , IV, 474ff.; Sex and Primitive Morality, ibid. , IV, 774ff.; The Psychology of Modesty and Clothing, ibid. , V, 246ff.; The Adventitious Character of Woman, ibid. , XII, 32ff.; The Mind of Woman and the Lower Races, ibid. , XII, 435ff.; The Psychology of Exogamy, in the Zeitschrift für Socialwissenschaft , V, 1ff., with the title, Der Ursprung der Exogamie; Sex and Social Feeling, in the Psychological Review , XI, 61ff., with the title, The Sexual Element in Sensibility. Portions of a paper printed in the Forum , XXXVI, 305ff., with the title, Is the Human Brain Stationary? are incorporated in the paper on The Mind of Woman and the Lower Races, and portions of a paper printed in the American Journal of Sociology , IX, 593ff., with the title, The Psychology of Race-Prejudice, are incorporated in the paper on Sex and Social Feeling. I acknowledge the courtesy of the editors of these journals for permission to reprint.