Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist whose print and broadcast work has appeared on the BBC and in the Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, the Economist, and Science. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism gold award in 2015. Saini has a master’s in engineering from Oxford University, and she is the author of Geek Nation: How Indian Science Is Taking Over the World.
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 to find evidence to support this.
Whether looking at intelligence or emotion, cognition or 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 are, 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, strategic, and smart as anyone else.
In Inferior, acclaimed science writer Angela Saini weaves together a fascinating—and sorely necessary—new science of women. As Saini takes readers on a journey to uncover science’s failure to understand women, she finds that we’re still living with the legacy of an establishment that’s just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice. Sexist assumptions are stubbornly persistent: even in recent years, researchers have insisted that women are choosy and monogamous while men are naturally promiscuous, or that the way men’s and women’s brains are wired confirms long-discredited gender stereotypes.
As Saini reveals, however, groundbreaking research is finally rediscovering women’s bodies and minds. Inferior investigates the gender wars in biology, psychology, and anthropology, and delves into cutting-edge scientific studies to uncover a fascinating new portrait of women’s brains, bodies, and role in human evolution.
發表於2024-11-23
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圖書標籤: 女性 社會 心理 性彆研究 英文 Feminism 英文原版 原版
主題算是感興趣,可以寫作真的太雜亂瞭,很難把性彆研究的脈絡梳理齣來,聽著聽著就跟丟瞭,勉強聽完
評分很有意思的書,從很多角度描述瞭女性在人類曆史上的重要性,通過研究觀察靈長類動物社群來推演女性和本性和在進化中的作用
評分主題算是感興趣,可以寫作真的太雜亂瞭,很難把性彆研究的脈絡梳理齣來,聽著聽著就跟丟瞭,勉強聽完
評分主題算是感興趣,可以寫作真的太雜亂瞭,很難把性彆研究的脈絡梳理齣來,聽著聽著就跟丟瞭,勉強聽完
評分大緻讀瞭一遍。從一個女性科學工作者和記者的角度對科學界裏的性彆偏見和歧視狀況做瞭曆史梳理,數據很多,但不是枯燥的羅列,有態度,有觀點。與少數激進女權不切實際的偏激口號和要求相比,這種實打實的研究還是最有意義的。作者此前已經在國內齣過一本《極客帝國》,版權談好就可以著手翻譯啦。
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