Mating Marriage and the Status of Women - James Corin 1910 - The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., London and Felling-on-Tyne - First Edition ‘The Object of the present treatise is to consider the development of the relations of the male and the female of the species.’ And onward Corin bravely goes. This rare treatise is still referenced today, and must of been of importance at the time, this copy was owned by the ‘Liberator League’ of Bradford.

Corin summarises his theories in the final chapter as follows:- ‘In the first period the human female rules. She dictates to the male in sexual affairs — this is free mating...

In the second period the male captures foreign females for his use, because his own are too chaste; these foreign females become his slave wives. He courts and mates with females of his own tribe at yearly festivals like Australian corroborees.

In the third period the institution of marriage has become the dominant form . . . so much so that mating unions become regularised as marriages or are condemned as illicit. Of females, wives are more honoured than free mates — in fact the latter become infamous except in a few cases of royal princesses...

In the fourth period the female recognises and revolts against her inferior position; restrictions on dissolution of marriage are relaxed, and by easy divorce, conditions nearly approaching those of free-mating are again evolved...

In the fifth period, social disruption occurs, conquest by a lower type takes place. The male seizes the opportunity to reinstate the fetters of matrimony and to rivet the links more tightly on the female. so that something of the third period is entered into again.’
  Provenance: Liberator League of 61, Dorset St., Bradford.

pp. xii 182 [2]. In publisher’s ribbed green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, and in blind to front panel.
  Condition: Very good, minor rubbing to edges of cloth boards, and soiling to endpapers, one or two gatherings over opened..   Ref: 105163   Price: HK$ 1,900