Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and Its Theories on Women

By Ruth Bleier

Book Overview

Bleier (neurophysiology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) dissects the theme of women's biological inferiority contending that science has been engaged in elaborate mythologizing to explain the subordinate position of women in Western civilizations since Aristotle. Exploring the scientific and ideological b

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807762008
• ISBN13: 9780807762004
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.