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

Dianne Hales

Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
6 June 2000
Pages
416
ISBN
9780553378184

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

Dianne Hales

In recent years researchers in many scientific 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.

Stereotypes about women are as old as time–and as current as still-too-prevalent beliefs based on male models. Acclaimed health writer Dianne Hales brings together the cutting-edge research in anthropology, physiology, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and medicine in a book that reveals the complex interconnections between all aspects of a woman’s life from infancy to old age. Gender science is now clearly demonstrating that women are not the second sex but a separate sex, unique in body, mind, and spirit.

Just Like a Woman explains what it means to live in a woman’s body, think with a woman’s brain, drink in the world with a woman’s senses, and react with a woman’s sensibility to the stresses and elations of her multiple roles. Refreshingly free of ideology, this meticulously documented book offers a stunningly liberating message that expands our concept of human potential–and will forever change the way every woman views herself.

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