Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
ISBN-10
1501174436
ISBN-13
9781501174438
Category
Social Science
Pages
400
Language
English
Published
2017-08-29
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Carol Tavris

Description

When "man is the measure of all things," woman is forever trying to measure up. In this enlightening book, Carol Tavris unmasks the widespread but invisible custom -- pervasive in the social sciences, medicine, law, and history -- of treating men as the normal standard, women as abnormal. Tavris expands our vision of normalcy by illuminating the similarities between women and men and showing that the real differences lie not in gender, but in power, resources, and life experiences. Winner of the American Association for Applied and Preventive Psychology's Distinguished Media Contribution Award

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