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Moving beyond words [electronic resource] : age, rage, sex, power, money, muscles : breaking the boundaries of gender / Gloria Steinem.

Summary:

With cool humor and rich intellect, Gloria Steinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how limiting these invented cultural identities can be. In the first of six sections, Steinem imagines how our understanding of human psychology would be different in a witty reversal: What if Freud had been a woman who inflicted biological inferiority on men (think "womb envy")? In other essays, the author presents positive examples of people who turn stereotypes on their heads, from a female bodybuilder to Mahatma Gandhi, whose followers absorbed his wisdom that change starts at the bottom. And in some of the most moving pieces, Steinem reveals something of her own complicated history as a writer, woman, and citizen of the world.

Record details

ISBN: 9781453250174 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1453250174 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Publisher: New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2012, c1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: How Phyllis Freud Was Born -- What If Freud Were Phyllis? or, The Watergate of the Western World -- Introduction: The Politics of Muscle -- The Strongest Woman in the World -- Introduction: Sixteen Years Before the Mast -- Sex, Lies, and Advertising -- Introduction: A Question of Class -- The Masculinization of Wealth -- Revaluing Economics -- Doing Sixty.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, July 9, 2012).