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Saini, Angela, 1980-
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Women's studies.
Women -- Psychology.
Women -- Physiology.
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Saini, Angela, 1980-
Women's studies.
Women -- Psychology.
Women -- Physiology.
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Inferior
:
how
science
got
women
wrong
-
and the
new
research
that'
s
rewriting
the
story
/ Angela Saini.
by
Saini, Angela, 1980-
Beacon Press, 2017.
Call #:
305.42 S132i
Subjects
Women
's studies.
Women
-- Psychology.
Women
-- Physiology.
ISBN:
9780807010037 (pbk.)
Description:
213 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"What
science
has gotten so shamefully
wrong
about
women
, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew. For hundreds of years it was common sense:
women
were the
inferior
sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that
women
were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists--primarily men--claimed to find evidence to support this. From intelligence to emotion, cognition to behavior,
science
has continued to tell us that men and
women
are fundamentally different. Biologists claim that
women
are better suited to raising families or, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of
research
is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew. The
new
woman revealed by this scientific data is as strong, powerful, strategic, and smart as anyone else. In
Inferior
, acclaimed
science
writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating--and sorely necessary--new
science
of
women
. She takes readers on a journey to uncover
science
's failure to understand
women
and to show
how
women
's bodies and minds are finally being rediscovered. Saini tells this alternate
story
of
science
with personal stories, controversial
research
, and an investigation into the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology."--From publisher.
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