Just Like a Woman How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female [Paperback]

In recent years researchers in many scientific fields have actively focused on what being female really means. Their startling conclusion: Almost every assumption made about women--physical, medical, historical, psychological--turns out to be untested, unproven, or untrue.

Stereotypes about women are as old as time--and as current as still-too-prevalent beliefs based on male models. Acclaimed health writer Dianne Hales brings together the cutting-edge research in anthropology, physiology, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and medicine in a book that reveals the complex interconnections between all aspects of a woman's life from infancy to old age. Gender science is now clearly demonstrating that women are not the second sex but a separate sex, unique in body, mind, and spirit.

Just Like a Womanexplains what it means to live in a woman's body, think with a woman's brain, drink in the world with a woman's senses, and react with a woman's sensibility to the stresses and elations of her multiple roles. Refreshingly free of ideology, this meticulously documented book offers a stunningly liberating message that expands our concept of human potential--and will forever change the way every woman views herself."A sensitive exploration...thoughtful and eloquent."
--Time

"Hales resolutely eschews politics of all kinds....[She] focuses upon the implications of recent scientific research for our understanding of women and the ways they differ from men."
--The Washington Post Book World

"An overview of recent gender-specific research that is redefining womanhood...[and] challenges the long-held scientific notion that woman is abnormal and inferior [to man] in body and therefore in mind and spirit."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Clearly explains how women are different from men in important ways and eloquently describes why these differences matter so much.  Highly recoml#