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The book ranges widely over the scientific investigations of the differences between male and female in humans and other animals. Saini looks at the bias towards male subjects in medical research, and peers into studies of hormonal and gender influences on brain size and structure. She examines the evolutionary and ethnographic evidence for differences in behaviour, work patterns, social power and sexual promiscuity, and digs into the intriguing theories that are competing to attribute the menopause to the influence of patriarchy or of the role of grandmothers in childcare. Step by step Saini reveals that in all these areas, early findings of clear differences between men and women – almost invariably to the advantage of men – have frequently unravelled upon deeper and broader scrutiny. Disparities evaporate when one takes a more holistic view of the variation between individuals, or extends the investigation to other animal species or human tribes, or simply repeats the experiment with better controls. Saini leavens her careful dissection of the science of gender differences with surprising accounts of the hunting prowess of Agta tribeswomen in the Philippines, the habitual affairs of married Himba mothers in northern Namibia, and the violent dominance of female bonobos over males (the inverse of chimpanzee behaviour). The tone throughout is measured. Saini's even-handed treatment of disagreements over the proper interpretation of results and observations should give even hardened sceptics pause for thought. Her balanced approach is reinforced by the care taken at every turn to cite her sources. The text might lose a little poetry because of this attention to detail, but it is a price worth paying to make the book as resilient as it needs to be. Although respect for evidence is often spouted as the sine qua non of science, the reality is often very different – especially in the study of human behaviour, which is so readily perturbed by norms and presumptions that affect us all. The prickliness of some of Saini's interviews with male researchers is telling, but not as revealing as the accounts of some of the women scientists she spoke to. Primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, whose work in the 1970s on Langur monkeys challenged established ideas about female passivity and promiscuity, met stiff resistance from male colleagues that was not altogether scientific: stick to housework, she was told. PrijzenErelijsten
"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--primarily men--claimed to find evidence to support this. From intelligence to emotion, cognition to behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim that women are better suited to raising families or, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of research is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew. The new woman revealed by this scientific data is as strong, powerful, strategic, and smart as anyone else. In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating--and sorely necessary--new science of women. She takes readers on a journey to uncover science's failure to understand women and to show how women's bodies and minds are finally being rediscovered. Saini tells this alternate story of science with personal stories, controversial research, and an investigation into the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Hoewel de cover mij wat tegen stak ben ik toch heel nieuwsgierig in dit boek begonnen. En ik heb er geen spijt van, wat een boeiend boek.
In Ondergeschikt toont Saini ons door middel van pakken wetenschappelijk bewijs hoe wij al jarenlang misleid worden door de wetenschap. Want onderzoek en cijfers lijken wel zwart-wit maar zijn het verre van. Onderzoeken kunnen (onbewust) gestuurd worden, resultaten worden geïnterpreteerd op basis van wat men al weet of verwacht, testgroepen kunnen te klein of niet breed genoeg zijn,…
Dat klinkt misschien ver van ons bed maar wat er onderzocht wordt in de neurowetenschap, psychologie, geneeskunde, antropologie en evolutiebiologie bepaalt ons dagdagelijkse leven enorm. Die resultaten verschijnen niet alleen in vakbladen maar halen ook vaak de koppen van de gewone krant en wakkeren daarmee nogmaals de ongelijkheid aan. Of vrouwen hebben meer bijwerkingen van medicijnen omdat zij niet eens in de testgroep waren opgenomen.
De onderzoekers doen dit niet (allemaal) bewust. Het zijn ook maar mensen, met hun eigen bril en referentiekader, zelfs tijdens hun werk. En hoe jammer het ook is dat er door sommige onderzoeken het idee wordt aangewakkerd dat mannen van Mars komen en vrouwen van Venus, toch zit er maar één ding op om de vooroordelen en mythes weg te werken: nog meer onderzoek. Onderzoek door vrouwen, voor vrouwen. Wetenschappers moeten ook feministen zijn. Niet om de vrouw op te hemelen maar om voor eens en voor altijd aan te tonen dat wij allemaal anders zijn maar daarnaast ook allemaal gelijk.
Wat mij vooral bijblijft is het idee dat sekseverschillen cultureel in plaats van biologisch bepaald zijn.
Dames, er is nog werk aan de winkel! Begin met het lezen van dit boek. ( )