Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female - Hardcover

Hales, Dianne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553102281 ISBN 13: 9780553102284

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1999

Synopsis

Drawing on current research in the fields of anthropology, biology, physiology, and medical science, this thorough discussion of gender throws out old stereotypes and presents new documentation showing the interconnectedness among biological and emotional traits.

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About the Author

Dianne Hales is one of the country's most widely published and honored writers on health subjects, the author of twelve texts and lay books, and most recently the co-author, with Robert E.  Hales, M.D., of the award-winning compendium of mental health and mental disorders, Caring for the Mind.  She lives in Marin County, California, with her husband and daughter.

From the Inside Flap

e Stereotypes!

Just like a woman! The very phrase is a put-down, echoing the long-entrenched stereotypes of what it means to be female. From earliest recorded history, women have been cast in terms of males: lesser versions that are frailer, smaller, dimmer, less competent, defective. Never again. This lively, meticulously documented book turns the dismissive old catchphrase inside out.

It is only in the past few years that researchers in many fields have actively focused on what being female really means. Their startling conclusion: almost every assumption made about women--physical, medical, historical, psychological--turns out to be untested, unproven, or untrue. Rather than classifying women only by their biology (as the medical establishment has), or denying they are biological creatures (as some feminists have), Just Like a Woman presents the cutting-edge findings in anthropology, physiology, psychology

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553102281
• ISBN 13: 9780553102284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398