Full Description
Originally published in 1948 this classic book by the feminist critic and poet Ruth Herschberger was one of an early wave of mid-century texts (along with Simon de Beauvoir's Second Sex) that reframed the supposedly neutral world of science into a minefield of male-centered bias. Herschberger advocated for the need to correct a vision of science emerging only from the male point of view which reinforced the idea that females of all species represented a deviation from the universal (male) norm. The book analyses the anti-feminine sex-role stereotypes, both implicit and explicit.
Contents
1.How To Tell a Woman from a Man 2. Josie Takes the stand 3. Is Rape a Myth? 4. A Minor Mystery 5. Love at Bay 6. Witchcraft and the Moon 7. What Shall We Do with the Climacteric? 8. Society Writes Biology 9. And Then They Were One 10. The Good Will Hour 11. A New Generation 12. Education for Frigidity 13. The Laws of Rapture 14. Women as Something Special 15. A Worl of Differences 16. Here Are the Facts 17. Notes
