The Intermediate Sex

Works by Edward Carpenter

The Intermediate
Sex

A Study of Some Transitional Types
of Men and Women

BY
EDWARD CARPENTER

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.
RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1

“There are transitional forms between the metalsand non-metals; between chemical combinations andsimple mixtures, between animals and plants, betweenphanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammalsand birds.… The improbability may henceforth betaken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavagebetween all that is masculine on the one side andall that is feminine on the other; or that any livingbeing is so simple in this respect that it can be putwholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.”

O. Weininger.

Prefatory Note
TO FIRST EDITION

The following papers, now collected in book-form,have been written—and some of thempublished—on various occasions during the lasttwelve or fourteen years, and in the intervals ofother work; and this must be my excuse foroccasional repetitions or overlapping of matter,which may be observable among them. I havethought it best, however, to leave them as theystand, as in this way each is more complete initself. The second essay, which gives its title tothe book, has already appeared in my “Love’sComing-of-Age” (edition 1906), but is reprintedhere as belonging more properly to this volume.

A collection of quotations from responsiblewriters, who touch on various sides of the subject,is added at the end, to form an Appendix—whichthe author thinks will prove helpful, though hedoes not necessarily endorse all the opinionspresented.

E. C.

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