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Title: Taboo and Genetics

Author: Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard

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Language: English

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TABOO AND GENETICS

A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of
the Family

by

M. M. KNIGHT, PH.D.

IVA LOWTHER PETERS, PH.D.

PHYLLIS BLANCHARD, PH.D.

Author of _The Adolescent Girl_

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
New York: Moffat, Yard & Co.

1921

DEDICATED TO
OUR FRIEND AND TEACHER,
FRANK HAMILTON HANKINS

PREFACE

Scientific discovery, especially in biology, during the past two decades
has made necessary an entire restatement of the sociological problem of
sex. Ward's so-called "gynaecocentric" theory, as sketched in Chapter 14
of his _Pure Sociology_, has been almost a bible on the sex problem to
sociologists, in spite of the fact that modern laboratory
experimentation has disproved it in almost every detail. While a
comparatively small number of people read this theory from the original
source, it is still being scattered far and wide in the form of
quotatio