Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
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Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
‘The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence’,
Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
This is no doubt true of our species overall – but the reality of human-on-human lethal violence is that it is overwhelmingly a male occupation: a thirty-year analysis of murder in Sweden found that nine out of ten murders are committed by men.5 This holds with statistics from other countries, including Australia,6 the UK7 and the US.8 A 2013 UN ho
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all are evolutionary products of the success of hunting adaptation’, what does that mean for women’s humanity? If human evolution is…
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So is it humans who are murderous,or men? And if women aren’t on the whole murdering, what are we to think of female ‘phylogenetics’?
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In her now classic 1975 essay, ‘Woman the Gatherer’, anthropologist Sally Slocum challenged the…
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And so she asked a simple question to fill the silence: ‘what were the females doing while the males were out hunting?’ Answer: gathering, weaning, caring for children during ‘longer periods of infant dependency’,…
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What matters is the pattern. What matters is whether, given the weight of the data I will present, it is reasonable to conclude that the gender…
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The problem is the social meaning that we ascribe to that body, and a socially determined…
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That means, including the gender stereotypes that have risen and largely uncriticised, unmulled over. Agnotology, and the beliefs and worldviews we have built around these things.
The point of this book is not psychoanalysis. I do not have direct access to the innermost thoughts of those who perpetuate the gender data gap, which means that this book cannot provide…
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