Mismeasure Of Woman

Author : Carol Tavris
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0671797492

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Mismeasure of Woman by Carol Tavris Pdf

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

Author : Carol Tavris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UVA:X002088613

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The Mismeasure of Woman by Carol Tavris Pdf

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.

Author : Carol Tavris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501174438

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Mismeasure of Woman by Carol Tavris Pdf

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

Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393340402

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The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded) by Stephen Jay Gould Pdf

The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."

Author : Carol Tavris,Avrum Bluming
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780316481182

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Estrogen Matters by Carol Tavris,Avrum Bluming Pdf

A compelling defense of hormone replacement therapy, exposing the faulty science behind its fall from prominence and empowering women to make informed decisions about their health. For years, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was hailed as a miracle. Study after study showed that HRT, if initiated at the onset of menopause, could ease symptoms ranging from hot flashes to memory loss; reduce the risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, and some cancers; and even extend a woman's overall life expectancy. But when a large study by the Women's Health Initiative announced results showing an uptick in breast cancer among women taking HRT, the winds shifted abruptly, and HRT, officially deemed a carcinogen, was abandoned. Now, sixteen years after HRT was left for dead, Dr. Bluming, a medical oncologist, and Dr. Tavris, a social psychologist, track its strange history and present a compelling case for its resurrection. They investigate what led the public -- and much of the medical establishment -- to accept the Women's Health Initiative's often exaggerated claims, while also providing a fuller picture of the science that supports HRT. A sobering and revelatory read, Estrogen Matters sets the record straight on this beneficial treatment and provides an empowering path to wellness for women everywhere.

Author : Cordelia Fine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393079252

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine Pdf

“[Fine’s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is.”—The New York Times It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children—boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks—we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. And everywhere we hear about vitally important “hardwired” differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and sometimes even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo. Women, it seems, are just too intuitive for math; men too focused for housework. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men’s and women’s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men’s brains aren’t wired for empathy and women’s brains aren’t made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men’s and women’s behavior. Instead of a “male brain” and a “female brain,” Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender. Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that men’s and women’s brains are intrinsically different—a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor, all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society.

Author : Carol Tavris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cognitive dissonance
ISBN : 1780660383

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Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) by Carol Tavris Pdf

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they make mistakes? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibil.

Author : Sona Stephan Hoisington
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810112248

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A Plot of Her Own by Sona Stephan Hoisington Pdf

A Plot of Her Own presents compelling new readings of major texts in the Russian literary canon, all of which are readily available in translation. The female protagonists in the works examined are inextricably linked with the fundamental issues raised by the novels they inform; the interpretations offered strive not to be reductive or doctrinaire, not to be imposed from the outside but to arise from the texts themselves and the historical circumstances in which they were written. Authors discussed include Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov, and the novels considered range from Fathers and Children to Zamyatin's anti-Utopian We. Throughout, the contributors new visions expand our understanding of the words and reveal new significance in them.

Author : Victoria F. Nourse
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780393065299

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In Reckless Hands by Victoria F. Nourse Pdf

Author : Carol Tavris,Susan Sadd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037022832

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The Redbook Report on Female Sexuality by Carol Tavris,Susan Sadd Pdf

These are "married" women. Only a few casual references to homosexuality. "Lesbianism" isn't in the index!--P. Thorslev.

Author : Carol Tavris
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0671250949

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Anger, the Misunderstood Emotion by Carol Tavris Pdf

"This landmark book" (San Francisco Chronicle) dispels the common myths about the causes and uses of anger -- for example, that expressing anger is always good for you, that suppressing anger is always unhealthy, or that women have special "anger problems" that men do not. Dr. Carol Tavris expertly examines every facet of that fascinating emotion -- from genetics to stress to the rage for justice. Book jacket.

Author : Carol Tavris,Carole Wade
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015007677043

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The Longest War by Carol Tavris,Carole Wade Pdf

Author : Alessandra Tanesini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198858836

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The Mismeasure of the Self by Alessandra Tanesini Pdf

The Mismeasure of the Self is dedicated to vices that blight many lives. They are the vices of superiority, characteristic of those who feel entitled, superior and who have an inflated opinion of themselves, and those of inferiority, typical of those who are riddled with self-doubt and feel inferior. Arrogance, narcissism, haughtiness, and vanity are among the first group. Self-abasement, fatalism, servility, and timidity exemplify the second. This book shows these traits to be to vices of self-evaluation and describes their pervasive harmful effects in some detail. Even though the influence of these traits extends to any aspect of life, the focus of this book is their damaging impact on the life of the intellect. Tanesini develops and defends a view of these vices that puts vicious motivations at their core. The analyses developed in this work build on empirical research in attitude psychology and on philosophical theories in virtue ethics and epistemology. The book concludes with a positive proposal for weakening vice and promoting virtue.

Author : Meryl Altman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004431218

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Beauvoir in Time by Meryl Altman Pdf

Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing that Beauvoir is still good to think with today.

Author : Robert R.M. Verchick
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814719121

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Feminist Legal Theory by Robert R.M. Verchick Pdf

Feminist Legal Theory is a groundbreaking collection of feminist work proceeding from the core assumption that the differences among women are essential to feminist analysis. Rather than presenting feminist legal theory sequentially, with “African American feminism” or “critical race feminism” added on at the end, the volume thoroughly integrates key readings from non-white, non-middle class, and non-mainstream writers throughout. The volume explores the intersections of race, class, and gender in such areas as theory, family, work and economic issues, and violence against women. Each section of the book begins with an introduction providing context and insights into how the particular pieces included challenge norms and create new paradigms. This vibrant, challenging collection of work by a broad range of authors represents the cutting edge of feminist theory in concrete applications essential to gender equality. Contributors include: Patricia Hill Collins, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Angela P. Harris, Sylvia A. Law, Mari Matsuda, Martha Minow, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, john a. powell, Jenny Rivera, and Maxine Baca Zinn.