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Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
Author: Phyllis Chesler
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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
ISBN-13: 9781560253518
ISBN-10: 1560253517
Publication Date: 2/9/2002
Pages: 551
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Publisher: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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Drawing from a deep well of experience, reflection, and scientific research, Chesler has painted a revealing masterpiece of Woman's dark side. With relentless objectivity and admirable candor, her courage exceeded only by her integrity, Chesler hammers sharp nails into the coffin of feminist wishful thinking about sex and gender roles, explode the sophomoric myth that only men victimize and abuse women, and drives a large stake through the heart of Rousseauseque fantasies. Chesler's love of truth will make her some powerful enemies, but this book is way beyond Simone de Beauvoir.


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