“Dr Kenealy has elaborated the truth that men and women inherit the characteristics of both sexes into an extreme doctrine which she uses as a weapon to attack feminism and the ‘unwomanly woman.’ She heads a chapter, ‘One side of the body is male, the other side is female’; and the next, ‘Masculine mothers produce emasculate sons by misappropriating the life-potential of male offspring.’ Feminist doctrine and practice are disastrous to human faculty and progress. She is in dread of ‘the impending subjection of man,’ because it will be a calamity for woman as well as for man.”—Ath
Ath p621 My 7 ’20 120w
“It is a sad spectacle to see a helpless fact writhing under the disapproval of Dr Kenealy.” C. P. Gilman
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Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
Review 3:269 S 29 ’20 140w
“The problem of physical and psychic duality is discussed at length, and it is here that Miss Kenealy’s assumptions are seen to rest on dubious foundations. Her hypothesis of the necessity of ‘two modes of vital energy,’ for instance, is not fortified by facts. The common sense view of female capabilities tallies, however, in many instances with Miss Kenealy’s quasi-scientific postulates.”
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“Dr Arabella Kenealy states the case against ‘suffragetism’ and against the masculinization of women with considerable vigour and unquestionably with considerable truth, but it is so fatally easy to pick holes both in her logic and in her facts that the reader will probably find it difficult to do justice to the truth of her ideas.”
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