The Natural Superiority of WomenRowman Altamira, 1999 - 335 من الصفحات Among the central issues of the modern feminist movement, the debate over biology and culture over sex and gender, over genetics and gender roles has certainly been one of the most passionately contested. Making revolutionary arguments upon its first publication in 1953, The Natural Superiority of Women stands as one of the original feminist arguments against biological determinism. An iconoclast, Montagu wielded his encyclopedic knowledge of physical anthropology in critique of the conventional wisdom of women as the "weaker sex," showing how women's biological, genetic, and physical makeup made her not only man's equal, but his superior. Also a humanist, Montagu points to the emotional and social qualities typically ascribed to and devalued in women as being key to just social life and relationships. Subsequent editions of this book have provided additional support for Montagu's arguments, examining both biological and social scientific data of the late 20th century. One of the most broadly renowned and read scholars of our century, Montagu brings out this fifth edition with up-to-date statistics and references. A lengthy foreword by Susan Sperling contextualizes the book within the intellectual histories of feminism and anthropology, noting the huge social and intellectual changes that are spanned in Montagu's life and writing. Montagu's foundational book is an important addition to the library of all gender scholars. |
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... early years and continue to be in its central zone of contestation . The abhorrent tract I read in my friend's guestroom makes one correct point : Ashley Montagu has been in the thick of things for a long time , a central figure in the ...
... early years and continue to be in its central zone of contestation . The abhorrent tract I read in my friend's guestroom makes one correct point : Ashley Montagu has been in the thick of things for a long time , a central figure in the ...
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... early 1920s , where the received wisdom on the issue of race was still very much that of a hierarchy of primitive to more advanced human types exem- plified by modern peoples . According to this central construct of nineteenth - century ...
... early 1920s , where the received wisdom on the issue of race was still very much that of a hierarchy of primitive to more advanced human types exem- plified by modern peoples . According to this central construct of nineteenth - century ...
الصفحة 15
... early twentieth - century reformulation of anthropology as distinct from nineteenth - century scientistic racism and ethnocentrism . In the drafting of both the first and second UNESCO statements on race , Montagu applies some of the ...
... early twentieth - century reformulation of anthropology as distinct from nineteenth - century scientistic racism and ethnocentrism . In the drafting of both the first and second UNESCO statements on race , Montagu applies some of the ...
الصفحة 19
... early years of childhood . At the same time , Montagu contests key aspects of Western patriarchal ideology using data from physical anthro- pology , cultural anthropology , cognitive and developmental psychology , and physiology . To ...
... early years of childhood . At the same time , Montagu contests key aspects of Western patriarchal ideology using data from physical anthro- pology , cultural anthropology , cognitive and developmental psychology , and physiology . To ...
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... early hominids . The message in these accounts of early hominid life is about aggression and territoriality as bio- logically determined hominid traits , male hunting as the engine of the hominid transition , and the dominance ...
... early hominids . The message in these accounts of early hominid life is about aggression and territoriality as bio- logically determined hominid traits , male hunting as the engine of the hominid transition , and the dominance ...
المحتوى
Prologue | 45 |
The Natural Superiority of Women | 49 |
The Subjection of Women | 65 |
The Social Determinants of Biological Facts and Social Consequences | 91 |
Who Said The Inferior Sex? | 111 |
When X Doesnt Equal Y | 127 |
The Sexual Superiority of the Female | 141 |
Are Women More Emotional Than Men? | 151 |
Women and Creativity | 203 |
The Genius of Woman as the Genius of Humanity | 229 |
Mutual Aid | 241 |
Changing Traditions | 257 |
Womans Task | 279 |
United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women | 291 |
On the Origins of My Views on the Natural Superiority of Women | 297 |
Notes | 303 |
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الصفحة 19 - The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shewn by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman- whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands.