The Woman Who Did and ‘The Girl Who Didn’t’: The Romance of Sexual Selection in Grant Allen and Ménie Muriel Dowie

Grant Allen ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 91-104
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Grant Allen

4.—Psychological Retrospect

1882 ◽  
Vol 28 (121) ◽  
pp. 132-135
Author(s):  
B. F. C. Costelloe ◽  
M.A. Glasgow
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Cell Theory ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
John Watson ◽  
The Many ◽  
Grant Allen ◽  
Botanical Classification ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Aesthetic Evolution

In a review of the many issues that have appeared since our last retrospect, it will not be possible to do much more than indicate the main topics of interest to our readers in the various numbers of “Mind.” No. XX. (October, 1880) was in reality a more than usually interesting one. Besides the conclusion of a curious but valuable series of papers on the cell-theory and the “Unity of the Organic Individual,” to which we have referred before, it contained also an elaborate essay on “æsthetic Evolution in Man,” from the prolific pen of Mr. Grant Allen. It is sufficient to say of this that the theory propounded is one of “apanthropinisation;” or, in more intelligible language, the widening out of associations of beauty concentrically from the assumed starting-point in the sexual selection of the most ornamented mate. There is an unimportant essay by W. Davidson on “Botanical Classification”—a subject which has yet to be philosophically treated—and a very important one on Kant, by Professor John Watson, of Canada. Among the Notes are some remarks by Mr. Bain on Mr. Galton's very interesting scheme of mental statistics (previously noticed here), a discussion of “Brute Reason,” and a noteworthy summary of the views lately stated with great clearness by Professor James, of Harvard, as to Muscular Sense and the feeling of effort, hitherto a subject for much loose theorising.

The katydid that was: the tananá, stridulation, Henry Walter Bates and Charles Darwin

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio J. Bidau
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Bush Cricket

The Amazonian bush-cricket or katydid, Thliboscelus hypericifolius (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Pseudophyllinae), called tananá by the natives was reported to have a song so beautiful that they were kept in cages for the pleasure of listening to the melodious sound. The interchange of letters between Henry Walter Bates and Charles Darwin regarding the tananá and the issue of stridulation in Orthoptera indicates how this mysterious insect, which seems to be very rare, contributed to the theory of sexual selection developed by Darwin.

Gender, Technology and the New Woman

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wånggren
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Woman ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender And Technology ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Grant Allen

This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siècle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the ‘crisis in gender’ or ‘sexual anarchy’ of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. This book explores the interlinking of gender and technology in writings by overlooked authors such as Grant Allen, Tom Gallon, H. G. Wells, Margaret Todd and Mathias McDonnell Bodkin. As the book demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in a technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.

Sexual selection, evolution of play and entertainment

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ohler ◽  
Gerhild Nieding
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection
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