A Paradox on Women: Wherein It Is Sought to Prove that They Do Not Belong to the Human Species:

From the PREFACE. This is the translation of a singular little book which appeared in 1595, having for title: "Disputatio perjucunda qua Anonymus probare nititur mulieres homines non esse." Some notes have been added, and some parts omitted which only bore upon the errors of Sociniaus or Anabaptists. The Author of this little work pretends to prove by passages of Scripture that women are not of the human race. A Minister of Brandenburg, named Gedicus, refuted this seriously without understa...