Zilboorg's interesting paper may be divided into four parts. In the first he gives a brief description of recent revolutionary changes in the cultural rôle of women. In the second part Freud's ideas about female psychology are objectively and informatively outlined. The third part criticizes various psychoanalytic theses and shows that psychoanalysis, in regard to female sexuality, betrays a denite 'cultural lag'. Neither the development of female sexuality, nor the bio- and psycho-sociological rôle of woman has been sufficiently understood. Freud was guided by an androcentric bias, and though he was fully aware that such problems as matrilineal inheritance, feminine deities, and man's hostility toward woman were worthy of consideration, he only hinted at them and did not offer any solution.

The fourth and last part of Zilboorg's paper constitutes his most constructive contribution. Zilboorg starts by reviewing Lester F. Ward's address before the Six O'Clock Club in Washington in 1888. Ward thought that the female