Men and Women's Club

The Men and Women's Club was a debating society founded by Karl Pearson to discuss relations between the sexes, such as marriage, sexuality, friendship, and prostitution. It was composed of middle-class London radical thinkers. It was intellectually adventurous for its time. It treated heterosexuality as normative[1]. It met from 1885 to 1889, and the records of its meetings are now part of the Pearson collection at University College London.[2]

References
  1. Lucy Bland, Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Morality 1885-1914 (London: Penguin Books, 1995), 4.
  2. Walkowitz, Judith R., History Workshop Journal 1986 21(1):37-59.


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