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IN these two books the factors which contribute to the determination of woman's position in modern society are considered from very different points of view, though both authors approach the question in the light of an analysis of more primitive custom and belief—in the one instance as found among modern peoples of the simpler cultures, in the other mainly relying on the evidence of the cults of antiquity.
(1) Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
By Margaret Mead. Pp. xxii + 335. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.
(2) Woman's Mysteries: Ancient and Modern
By Dr. Esther Harding. Pp. xvi + 342. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.
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(1) Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (2) Woman's Mysteries: Ancient and Modern. Nature 137, 476 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137476a0
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