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Mismeasure of Woman
Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
Carol Tavris(0)
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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
Winner of the American Association for Applied and Preventive Psychology's Distinguished Media Contribution Award
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Reviews
"Tavris' bracing insights...demonstrate that women are measuring themselves with a rigged yardstick -- one designed to measure (and exaggerate) the stature of men."
Susan Faludi author of Backlash
"Original, provocative, and utterly fascinating, this splendid book will change profoundly the way we think about the sexes -- and sex differences."
Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Ph.D. author of The Dance of Anger
"By destroying destructive myths about the inferiority and superiority of women, The Mismeasure of Woman provides the ground for a new dialogue between men and women."
Sam Keen author of Fire in the Belly