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Mismeasure of Woman
Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
Taschenbuch von Carol Tavris
Sprache: Englisch

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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
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., earned her doctorate in social psychology from the University of Michigan. She was senior editor for several years of a then-new magazine, Psychology Today, and went on to develop a career as a teacher, lecturer, and psychology writer. She is coauthor (with Carole Wade) of The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective and an introductory textbook, Psychology. In addition to writing the "Mind Health" column for Vogue magazine, she has written many articles and book reviews on diverse issues in psychology for a wide variety of magazines, including The New York Times, Discover, Science Digest, Human Nature, New York, Harper's, Geo, Ms., Redbook, and Woman's Day. While living in New York, Tavris taught at the Human Relations Center of the New School for Social Research, and in Los Angeles she now teaches from time to time in the department of psychology at UCLA.
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
Seiten: 404
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
preigu-id: 101048818
Über den Autor
Carol Tavris, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in social psychology from the University of Michigan. She was senior editor for several years of a then-new magazine, Psychology Today, and went on to develop a career as a teacher, lecturer, and psychology writer. She is coauthor (with Carole Wade) of The Longest War: Sex Differences in Perspective and an introductory textbook, Psychology. In addition to writing the "Mind Health" column for Vogue magazine, she has written many articles and book reviews on diverse issues in psychology for a wide variety of magazines, including The New York Times, Discover, Science Digest, Human Nature, New York, Harper's, Geo, Ms., Redbook, and Woman's Day. While living in New York, Tavris taught at the Human Relations Center of the New School for Social Research, and in Los Angeles she now teaches from time to time in the department of psychology at UCLA.
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
Seiten: 404
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
preigu-id: 101048818
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