 | Havelock Ellis, John Addington Symonds - 1897 - 326 sivua
...women who are not very robust and well-developed, physically or nervously, and who are not well adopted for child-bearing, but who still possess many excellent...rather indifferent to them. The actively inverted woman differs from the woman of the class just mentioned in one fairly essential character: a more or less... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1901 - 296 sivua
...the average man, though to this rule there are many exceptions. Their faces may be plain or ill made, but not seldom they possess good figures: a point...often renders men rather indifferent to them. the latter may imitate men on grounds of taste and habit unconnected with sexual perversion, while in the... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1906 - 300 sivua
...the average man, though to this rule there are many exceptions. Their faces may be plain or ill made, but not seldom they possess good figures: a point...rather indifferent to them. The actively inverted woman differs from the woman of the class just mentioned in one fairly essential character: a more or less... | |
 | Wayne R. Dynes, Stephen Donaldson - 1992 - 428 sivua
.... . . ; they are of strongly affectionate nature . . . and they are always womanly [emphasis mine]. One may perhaps say that they are the pick of the...though not precisely sexual, preference for women over men.1* 23. Ibid., pp. 278-79. 24. Havelock K.llis. "Sexual Inversion in Women." Atituist and Neurologist... | |
 | Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, David M. Halperin - 1993 - 696 sivua
...womanly. One may perhaps say that they are the pick of the women whom the average man would pass by. ... So far as they may be said to constitute a class they...though not precisely sexual, preference for women over men."47 Perhaps Ellis sensed that the "femme" was not a passive victim, but an active agent in defining... | |
 | Teresa De Lauretis - 1994 - 358 sivua
...figures: a point which is apt to carry more weight with the inverted woman than beauty of face. . . . One may, perhaps, say that they are the pick of the...which often renders men rather indifferent to them" (Studies in the Psychology of Sex 222). to all forms of homosexuality" (468) to a greater or lesser... | |
 | Martha Vicinus - 1996 - 296 sivua
...womanly. One may perhaps say that they are the pick of the women whom the average man would pass by. ... So far as they may be said to constitute a class they...though not precisely sexual, preference for women over men."47 Perhaps Ellis sensed that the "femme" was not a passive victim but an active agent in defining... | |
 | Ann Pellegrini - 1997 - 204 sivua
..."always womanly" and are "the pick of the women whom the average man would pass by." Ellis's femmes "possess a genuine, though not precisely sexual, preference for women over men" (222). Ellis's allowance that "mannishness" in women does not in every instance predict or go hand... | |
 | Sally Munt, Cherry Smyth - 1998 - 268 sivua
...at the same time as he accounts for her willingness to reciprocate the 'mannish woman's' advances: 'So far as they may be said to constitute a class,...which often renders men rather indifferent to them'; Ellis, 'Sexual inversion in women', Studies in the Psychology of Sex, p. 222. 13. Ellis, 'Sexual inversion... | |
 | Lisa Duggan - 2000 - 332 sivua
...they are open to homosexual advances, but I do not think it is the sole reason. So far as they may constitute a class, they seem to possess a genuine,...charm, which often renders men rather indifferent to them40 This residual category, required to shore up the portrait of inversion without implicating "normal"... | |
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One may, perhaps, say that they are the pick of the women whom the average man would pass by. No doubt, this is often the reason why they are open to homosexual advances, but I do not think it is the sole reason. So far as they may be said to constitute... 
