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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Mismeasure of Woman
Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
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Mismeasure of Woman
Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction: The Universal Male
- 1. Measuring Up: Why women am not inferior to men
- 2. Beautiful Souls and Different Voices: Why women are not superior to men
- 3. The 70-Kilogram Man and the Pregnant Person: Why women are not the same as men
- 4. Misdiagnosing the Body: Premenstrual syndrome, postmenstrual syndrome, and other normal âdiseasesâ
- 5. Misdiagnosing the Mind: Why women are âsickâ but men have âproblemsâ
- 6. Bedtime Stories: Three fables of female sexuality
- 7. Loveâs Experts, Loveâs Victims: How women cornered, the love market
- 8. Speaking of Gender: The darkened, eye restored,
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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