Woman's Inhumanity to Woman - Couverture souple

Chesler, Phyllis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0452284082 ISBN 13 : 9780452284081

Editeur : Plume, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Chesler Phyllis

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Why do contemporary women often have such a hard time getting along with each other, at work, and within the family? Why is female friendship so important to women, despite the prevalence of female betrayals? How does the mother-daughter relationship impede women's growth? This book—destined to be a controversial classic—draws on recent biological, psychological, and anthropological research, as well as hundreds of original interviews, to redress the complicated silence that has prevailed about woman's inhumanity to woman. While women may not be aggressive in the same way that men are, cross-cultural studies confirm that girls and women are equally aggressive in "indirect" ways, and mainly toward each other. Women envy and compete against other women, not against men—and tend to deny this, even to themselves. Like men, many women also hold sexist beliefs; often, they are unaware of it. Women depend upon each other for emotional intimacy and bonding, but their power to form cliques, gossip about, and shun one another enforces conformity and discourages self-confidence and psychological clarity from girlhood on. Are women oppressed? Yes. Do oppressed people internalize the oppressor's attitudes? Without a doubt. Women, therefore, must acknowledge their own sexism and gender double-standards before they can practice sisterhood, resist sexism, treat other women ethically, and forge realistic and compassionate personal and political coalitions. "Chesler's work is our public conscience."—Letty Cottoin Pogrebin

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Plume
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0452284082
• ISBN 13: 9780452284081
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 560
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• Personne responsable: non disponible