Evelyn Reed

Provides an answer to one of the fundamental arguments underlying all of the sexist propaganda--that biology is woman's destiny. Reissued from a 1972 pamphlet by Reed as a tool to help all those who are fighting against the forces in opposition to women's rights.

Is Biology Woman's Destiny?

Assesses women's leading and still largely unknown contributions to the development of human civilization and refutes the myth that women have always been subordinate to men.

Woman's Evolution from Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family

التمييز الجنسي والعلم

مشاكل تحرير المرأة - رؤية ماركسية

A Marxist Approach

Problems of Women's Liberation

The matriarchy is one of the most hotly contested issues between contending schools in anthropology. This book affirms that the maternal clan system was the original form of social organization and explains why. It also traces its development and the causes of its downfall.

Mary-Alice Waters

Joseph Hansen

How big business plays on women's second-class status and social insecurities to market cosmetics and rake in profits. The introduction by Waters explains how the entry of millions of women into the workforce during and after World War II irreversibly changed U.S. society and laid the basis for a renewed rise of struggles for women's emancipation."A lively and surprisingly timely historical lesson in the ever-raging controversy surrounding women, beauty, and oppression."Ms.Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photos, notes, index.

Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women

Are human beings innately aggressive? Does biology condemn women to remain the "second sex?" Taking up such biases cloaked as the findings of science, Reed explains that the disciplines closest to human life-anthropology, biology, and sociology-are permeated with rationalizations for the oppression of women and the maintenance of the established capitalist order. "A stimulating corrective to establishment academic doctrine and popular scientific vagaries. Recommended for scientific, women's, as well as nonspecialist collections." -Library Journal "An enjoyable book …. Reed shows, clearly and beautifully, how the mind of the scientist-usually male, white and middle-class-filters and processes the so-called facts …. [I]ntensely readable for non-specialists, but also stimulating for those who are not unfamiliar with the subject …. This is the sort of book that one should own, one should read, and one should pass along."-Status of Women News "Provides a useful antidote to obscurantic nonsense perpetrated by Ardrey, Morris and … Lionel Tiger."-Emergency Librarian "Dissects [Claude Levi-Strauss's] theses with precision and elegance."-News from Neasden Glossary, bibliography, index.

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