Sally's review
Mismeasure of Women: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
by Carol Tavris
Sally's review
Mismeasure of Women: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex by Carol Tavris
Sally's review
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bookshelves:
sociology,
women
Examines critically basic assumptions and "conventional wisdom" underlying the stories modern culture tells about women, and that women tell about themselves, whether dealing with their relation to men, health and psychological issues, social roles, sex, body image, etc. It points out that presenting women as opposite to men, better or worse than men, or the same as men, all involve evaluating women against the cultural norm of the universal male instead of taking women as they are in themselves. A social psychologist, the author promotes social and cultural change as a means to solve women's problems, instead seeing such problems as stemming from inadequacies or pathologies of individual women.
