"[1] As a scientist, she believed sex differences were vital to the continuation of the species and that feminism would lead to abolition of sex differences and dangerous competition between men and women harmful to both women and the long-term viability of the species, an argument she advanced in her book Feminism and Sex-Extinction.

[3] Her siblings included Alexander who became the editor of the Daily Mirror and her sister Annesley who was also a writer.

Its lead character is a female physician who adopts a younger woman who is escaping from an unhappy marriage.

Kenealy was a eugenicist and she asks BMJ readers to advise on whether failing to assist the "birth of such a child as laid its dull misshapen head against my knee that morning" was a good course of action.

Her book Feminism and Sex Extinction (1920) focused on what she perceived as the harmful effects of the women's rights movement.

Her 1934 book explained "the phenomenon of sex: its origin and development and its significance in the evolutionary process.