Sword of Womankind: Being an Informative History of Indesceet Revelations

Hardcover 1929, Panurge Press (Limited Edition of 1,000 copies), 237 pages-Adapted from the French. Very Good, no Dust Jacket. Decorated purple cloth boards with gilt titles and gilt illustration of a woman and a sword at bottom quadrant of front cover. Top edge gilt and deckled edges. Mild shelf/edge wear and a couple of faint smudges to the front cover - corners are very lightly worn. Internal pages are unmarked, deckled edges. The author believed that most important historical events were instigated by women. This is his famous study of love and war (from the ancients to the French Revolution), originally published in France in 1882. The text examines the consequences of gender and sex - including both the divinity and degradation of women, royal mistresses, chastity belts, debauchery during crusades, gallantry, erotic literature, cavaliers,orgies, and more. LOC SSS-19.