The Woman a Man Marries: An Analysis of Her Double Standard

First Edition, First Printing of a quite fascinating discussion of marital relations and female sexuality circa the mid 1920s. A blunt, frank, patronizing and somewhat unsettling tutorial to young women approaching marriage and the marital bed from a rather pompous and hardly proto-feminist expert. ("A cultured young college woman with a fine sense of fair play came to me years ago on the eve of marriage to have her physical fitness for the marital relation determined and her information of sexual life corrected and broadened. Following our conversation she expressed the wish that every young woman about to be married would follow the same course -- preferably with a male physician, in order that she might learn the man's real attitude." Dr. Pedersen proceeds with a full and squeamish description of the man's real attitude and biological matters. An interesting portrait of cultural perspectives in the period. Green cloth, 275 pages.