Note 317 — Chapter VIII · ToC
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E. von Wolzogen gives this name, The Third Sex, to a romance in which he describes a kind of barren, stunted woman, capable, however, of holding her place in all work in competition with men. The writer compares these types of women to the workers among ants and bees. See p. 62. I have quoted from Iwan Bloch, The Sexual Life of Our Times, p. 13.