The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls - Softcover

Dowling, Colette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375758151 ISBN 13: 9780375758157

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2001

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Book by Dowling Colette

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"Rich cultures value thin women, and poor cultures fat women, but all male-dominant cultures value weakness in women. That's why Colette Dowling's The Frailty Myth is radical in its well-reasoned, readable, wise exposé of the reality, importance, and future of female strength."
--Gloria Steinem

"Required reading . . . [a] strong argument against [the] 'weaker-sex' stereotype."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"In the twenty-first century, Americans are going to have to rethink the idea of the physical inferiority of women because of books like The Frailty Myth. Dowling overturns the old Victorian idea that women are the weaker sex. . . . This is a call to arms for female athleticism among girls and women of all ages."
--Joan Jacobs Brumberg, author of
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls and
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa

Reseña del editor:

Challenging the myth that women are naturally weaker than men, a noted feminist writer and author of The Cinderella Complex traces the history of the concept of female physical inferiority and its long-term repercussions in terms of women's health and social and professional status. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375758151
• ISBN 13: 9780375758157
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352