Just Like a Woman

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 Woman explains 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.