William Robinson: 64 books

Why Sex Knowledge is of Paramount Importance to Girls and Women—Reasons Why a Misstep in a Girl Has More Serious Consequences than a Misstep in a Boy—The Place Love Occupies in Woman's Life—Woman's Physical Disabilities. All are agreed—I mean all who are capable of thinking and have given...

This 1917 guide by a pioneering physician, written at a time when ignorance was rife, addresses the need for up-to-date, frank sex knowledge for women and girls, the physiology and psychology of sex, anatomy, puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, the fetus, prenatal care, abortion, miscarriage, masturbation, menopause, venereal disease, contraception, advice on marriage, and more.

Little has been reported about “military caregivers”—the population of those who care for wounded, ill, and injured military personnel and veterans. This report summarizes the results of a study designed to describe the magnitude of military caregiving in the United States today, as well as...

The first few months as a trainee anaesthetist are a daunting prospect, filled with new information, skills and terminology. This concise reference, now in its fifth edition, provides doctors with a clear introduction to the practice. Fully updated and split into four key parts for quick consultation,...

Filling a need for clear and accurate information at a time when it was difficult to find, the author of this 1912 guide presents a frank—and, for his time, radical—discussion of the psychology of sex, abstinence, the double standard, venereal disease, prostitution, contraception, abortion, impotence, anatomy, artificial insemination, and more.

This book examines how the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, a speculative philosopher from the first half of the twentieth century, converses and entangles itself with continental philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries around the question of a sustainable civilization in the...

This 1919 anthology of scholarly writings on sex, edited by a physician who struggled against the suppression of such knowledge, covers the topics of education, abstinence, marriage, abortion, divorce, prostitution, disease, rape, sexology, masturbation, obscenity, platonic love, eugenics, sexual ethics, frigidity, the psychology of sex, and other then-forbidden subjects.

This old Oriental legend is so exquisitely charming, so superior to the Biblical narrative of the creation of woman, that it deserves to be reproduced in Woman: Her Sex and Love Life. There are several variants of this legend, but I reproduce it as it appeared in the first issue of The Critic and Guide,...