Volume 41, Number 7 · April 7, 1994
Women Versus the Biologists
By Richard C. Lewontin
Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers
by Ruth Hubbard, by Elijah Wald
Beacon, 206 pp., $12.00 (paperback to be published in July) (paper)
Biological Woman—The Convenient Myth
edited by Ruth Hubbard, edited by Mary Sue Henifin, edited by Barbara Fried
Schenkman Publishers, 376 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Women's Nature: Rationalizations of Inequality
by Marian Lowe, by Ruth Hubbard
Pergamon Press/Teachers College Press, 155 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Genes and Gender: II, Pitfalls in Research on Sexual Gender
edited by Ruth Hubbard, edited by Marian Lowe
Gordian Press, 154 pp., $10.00 (paper)
The Politics of Women's Biology
by Ruth Hubbard
Rutgers University Press, 229 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The Shape of Red: Insider/Outsider Reflections
by Ruth Hubbard, by Margaret Randall
Cleis Press, 206 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The central social agony of American political and social life since the founding of the Republic has been caused by the problem of equality. Our domestic political history has been dominated by the demand for equality and the resistance to that demand. A destructive civil war, urban riots, the burning of cities, major legislation and judicial struggles, and the local social and political structures of a large section of the United States have all, at least at the level of public consciousness, been responses to the manifest inequality of status, wealth, and power in a society whose chief claim to legitimacy has been its devotion to equality.
Review, 6971 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |