The Men and Women's Club was a debating society founded by

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to discuss relations between the sexes, such as

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, and

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. It was composed of middle-class London radical thinkers. It was intellectually adventurous for its time. It met from 1885 to 1889, and the records of its meetings are now part of the Pearson collection at

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.Walkowitz, Judith R., "Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women's Club 1885-1889", ''History Workshop Journal'' 1986 21(1):37-59.

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