...appeared in the same year. In their defence of mental differences between the sexes, its authors remarked 'to obliterate them it would be necessary to have...prehistoric Protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament.'40 Closely informed by shifting attitudes towards charity, health, and empire, a new, gendered,...

...deep difference in constitution expresses itself in the distinctions between male and female . . . What was decided among the prehistoric Protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament." Some still see the influence of prehistory in men's lives, while others, repelled by such fatalism,...

...influential books on Sex, Geddes and Thomson reversed their notorious earlier verdict that sex differences 'decided among the prehistoric Protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament' (1889: 267, 1901 : 286). 3 Having learned from feminists like Olive Schreiner, whose Women and Labour...

...for the vote and a place in public life were misguided. In evolutionary terms and in Geddes' opinion: 'what was decided among the prehistoric Protozoa cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament'.3 Yet the women's movement, whether suffragist and campaigning peacefully for change, or...

...causes which produces the great sexual differences between the negro and white race. These differences may be exaggerated or lessened, but to obliterate...decided among the prehistoric Protozoa, cannot be changed by an act of Congress' (Geddes and Thompson). "The negro problem can be solved only by dealing...