James Thurber and E. B. White in Is Sex Necessary? (Harper, 1929; 1975, paper; Queen's House, 1977, cloth): "While the urge to eat is a personal matter which concerns no one but the person hungry . . . the sex urge involves, for its true expression, an- other individual. It is this 'other indi- vidual' that causes all the trouble."
The chief focus of historian Carl Degler's At Odds (Oxford, 1980) is on the rnodus vivendi that evolved be- tween the sexes during the 19th and early 20th...