The "Natural Inferiority" of Women: Outrageous Pronouncements by Misguided Males - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671744313 ISBN 13: 9780671744311

Publisher: Poseidon Press, 1991

Synopsis

A compendium of thousands of years of male chauvinism--from three thousand B.C. to today--presents reflections on women by such figures as Buddha, Norman Mailer, Tolstoy, Confucius, Freud, and Lee Marvin

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From Library Journal:

Most quotation books about women, such as Elaine Partnow's Quotable Woman: 1800-1981 ( LJ 6/1/83), her Quotable Woman: Eve to 1799 ( LJ 12/84) or Running Press's The Quotable Woman ( LJ 6/1/91), contain quotes by women. Starr, a lecturer and teacher at the Esalen Institute in California, has compiled an eclectic collection of quotations by males about the "inferior" female. Quotations from various cultures date from 3000 B.C. to the present and are arranged by chapters such as "Her Lesser Biology," "Evil Is Woman," and "Woman's Contemptible Weakness." The quotations reflect the widespread philosophy of woman as the inferior sex through multicultural proverbs, religious texts, and writings of various authors. The book is disturbing, provocative, and at times humorous. Entertaining, historical illustrations complement the text. A necessary purchase for women's studies collections. --Eva Lautemann, Dekalb College Lib. , Clarkston, Ga.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Poseidon Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671744313
• ISBN 13: 9780671744311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Starr Tama