Just Like a Woman
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- Synopsis
- The entry of more and more women into science, writes Dianne Hales, has started a quiet revolution, a reassessment of accepted notions of what it is to be a woman. "Women are not the second sex but a separate sex, female to the bone and to the very cells that make up those bones.... In affirming our femaleness, we are not diminishing or discrediting our mental ability or essential equality. Rather, we are recognizing a fundamental source of strength and sustenance." This "equal but different" stance is crucial to modern gender studies--heretofore, Hales says, most if not all medical and psychological research was done on men, and the conclusions recklessly applied to women. Now, science is finding out that females have their own unique strengths that equip them both for the biological roles they may choose to embrace as well as the societal roles they have often been denied. Hales explodes stereotypical notions of physiology and psychology in this well-researched and liberating book. --Therese Littleton
- Copyright:
- 1999
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 351 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780553102284
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 01/08/02
- Copyrighted By:
- Dianne Hales
- Adult content:
- Yes
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Romance, Health, Mind and Body, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Leslie Kues
- Proofread By:
- Leslie Kues
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.