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Inferior : the true power of women and the science that shows it /

By: Saini, Angela, 1980- [author.].
Publisher: London : 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher, 2018Description: 280 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780008172039; 9780008172039:; 000817203X.Subject(s): Women's studies | Women -- Psychology | Women -- PhysiologyDDC classification: 305.4
Contents:
Introduction -- Woman's inferiority to man -- Females get sicker but males die quicker -- A difference at birth -- The missing five ounces of the female brain -- Women's work -- Choosy, not chaste -- Why men dominate -- The old women who wouldn't die -- Afterword.
Summary: Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being rediscovered. She explores what these revelations mean for us as individuals and as a society, revealing an alternative view of science in which women are included, rather than excluded.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 305.4 SAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0081656
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-200) and index.

Introduction -- Woman's inferiority to man -- Females get sicker but males die quicker -- A difference at birth -- The missing five ounces of the female brain -- Women's work -- Choosy, not chaste -- Why men dominate -- The old women who wouldn't die -- Afterword.

Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being rediscovered. She explores what these revelations mean for us as individuals and as a society, revealing an alternative view of science in which women are included, rather than excluded.

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