Title: Just like a woman : how gender science is redefining what makes us female /
Authors: Hales, Dianne, 1950-
Publisher: Bantam Books,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Women Psychology.; Women Physiology.; Psychobiology.
Abstract: Explains how researchers have proven that many of the physical, medical, historical, and psychological assumptions that have been made about women are untrue and studies how contemporary findings in anthropology, physiology, psychology, and medicine are changing society's definition of a woman.
Contents: The Foreign Land: What is a woman? The Female of the species. Lucy's daughters. The Body of a woman. The Invisible patient -- The Dance of Life: Girls in bloom. Riding the moon. The Restless womb. To become a mother. Second puberty -- The Woman Within: Is there a female brain? Gender and emotion. Vulnerable women. Sensuous spirits. Tomorrow's woman.