Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-And the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

by Angela Saini

Book Overview

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew

For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists--most of them male, of course--claimed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807010030
• ISBN13: 9780807010037
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"