Sex and the Social Order

This book fails to satisfy, though never to interest, by attempting to encompass too much ground in too small a volume. In effect, Dr. Seward has essayed to write simultaneously a textbook of experimental and social psychology, a popular encyclopaedia of sex knowledge and a Left Wing political tract on Woman's Rights. Because of this it is by no means clear for which section of the population the book has been written. My own feeling is that it is too broad in its scope and consequently too shallow for the specialist reader and yet at the same time because of the technical language in which it is written, beyond the understanding of the general population. For example, I doubt whether many general