Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.
Mismeasure of Woman
Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
Taschenbuch von Carol Tavris
Sprache: Englisch

26,00 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Kategorien:
Beschreibung
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
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
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780671797492
ISBN-10: 0671797492
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tavris, Carol
Hersteller: Touchstone
Maße: 216 x 140 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Carol Tavris
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.1993
Gewicht: 0,568 kg
Artikel-ID: 101048818
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780671797492
ISBN-10: 0671797492
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tavris, Carol
Hersteller: Touchstone
Maße: 216 x 140 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Carol Tavris
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.1993
Gewicht: 0,568 kg
Artikel-ID: 101048818
Warnhinweis