Carol Tavris

Mismeasure of Woman (eBook, ePUB)

Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501174438
• Artikelnr.: 48401993

Autorenporträt

Carol Tavris, Ph.D., is a social psychologist, lecturer, and writer on many aspects of psychology. Her books include Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion. Tavris is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: The Universal Male
1 Measuring Up
Why women are not inferior to men
* Body: Beauty and the bust
* Psyche: The problem of women
* Brain: Dissecting the differences
2 Beautiful Souls and Different Voices
Why women are not superior to men
* Fighters and pacifists
* The search for the feminist Eden
* Moral voices, moral choices
* Why opposites repel
3 The 70-Kilogram Man and the Pregnant Person
Why women are not the same as men
* The 70-kilogram man
* Can women be "different" and "equal"?
* The pregnant person: Woman as flowerpot
* Women's rights versus equal rights
4 Misdiagnosing the Body
Premenstrual syndrome, postmenstrual syndrome, and other normal "diseases"
* The manufacture of "PMS"
* Of menstruation and men: The story behind the headlines
* Reading the body: The psychology of symptoms
* Doctoring the failed female
5 Misdiagnosing the Mind
Why women are "sick" but men have "problems"
* How to create a mental illness: Are you a self-defeating personality?
* How to create a social disease:Are you codependent?
* Diagnosing the human condition
6 Bedtime Stories
Three fables of female sexuality
* The myth of the coy female
* The myth of the lusty female
* The parable of the G Spot
* Beyond sexual "natures"
7 Love's Experts, Love's Victims
How women cornered the love market
* The feminizing of love
* Economics and emotions
* The sounds of silence
* Love story
8 Speaking of Gender
The darkened eye restored
* The prover of context...and the context of power
* The power of story: Gender as narrative
* Choosing a story: Victims, survivors, and the problem of blame
* Bridges
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index