Angela Saini
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Cuando Darwin publicó El origen de las especies, fundamento de la teoría de la biología evolutiva que revolucionó la visión de la especie humana, paradójicamente la mujer siguió en el mismo sitio, salida de la costilla de Adán, ocupando el lugar secundario al que la había llevado el dominio político y económico de los hombres.
En este libro la investigadora inglesa Angela Saini recorre rigurosamente y con amenidad alguno de los lugares...
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¿Cómo surgió la idea de raza y qué significa? En la era de la política identitaria, las pruebas de ADN y el ascenso de la extrema derecha vuelven a cobrar auge quienes defienden las diferencias biológicas entre poblaciones. La verdad: la raza es una construcción social. El problema: nos cuesta creerlo.
En Superior, la premiada autora Angela Saini investiga el concepto de raza desde sus orígenes hasta el presente. Con la ayuda de genetistas,...
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German
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Was ist das Patriarchat, und wie ist es entstanden? Jahrhundertelang sahen Gesellschaften männliche Vorherrschaft als natürlich an. Was aber, wenn wir nicht davon ausgehen, dass Männer stets über Frauen herrschten? Wenn wir die Ungleichheit der Geschlechter als etwas Fragiles wahrnehmen, das immer wieder neu durchgesetzt werden muss?
Die preisgekrönte Autorin Angela Saini erzählt radikal neu, was wir "Patriarchat" nennen. Sie erforscht die...
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Beacon Press
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English
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"A powerful look at the non-scientific history of "race science," and the assumptions, prejudices, and incentives that have allowed it to reemerge in contemporary science Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide...
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Beacon Press
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"What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists--primarily men--claimed to find evidence...
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Beacon Press
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2023.
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English
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"For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. But how would our understanding of gender inequality--our imagined past and contested present-- look if we didn't assume that men have always ruled over women? If we saw inequality as something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted? In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini explores the roots of what...
