The First Sex - The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World

Zusatztext "PROVOCATIVE . . . Fisher! an anthropologist! synthesizes the insights of her own discipline and those of psychology! sociology! ethnology and biology into good news for women." --Publishers Weekly "[Fisher's] science and her sociology make for a well-reasoned case that the people Simone de Beauvoir once defined as 'the second sex' are about to move to the head of the class." --Amazon.com Informationen zum Autor Helen Fisher is an anthropologist at Rutgers University and the author of The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior and Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy! Adultery! and Divorce. For her books! articles! and radio appearances! Dr. Fisher received the American Anthropological Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1985. Klappentext "Tomorrow belongs to women!" notes celebrated anthropologist Helen Fisher. In her explosive new book! The First Sex! she illustrates this enticing assertion. Drawing on original research! Fisher reveals how women and their natural talents are changing the world! making them ideal leaders and successful shapers of business and society--today and on into the twenty-first century. Looking back to prehistoric times! Fisher shows how the special structure of the female brain enables women to do "web thinking" or "synthesis thinking!" as compared to men's more linear or "step" thinking. With lively anecdotes and fascinating stories! Fisher reveals how women's special talents--superior verbal abilities! people savvy! acute senses! healing techniques! and more--are geared to success in today's worlds of medicine! education! communications! law! philanthropy! and government. Changes in society--the growth of the communications economy and new trends in family--are also giving women an advantage: women's unique talents are especially needed in our modern age. This eye-opening book will change the way you see yourself! your family! and the world around you! including every man and woman you meet. THE FIRST SEX CHAPTER 1 WEB THINKING Women's Contextual View What man has assurance enough to pretend to know thoroughly the riddle of a woman's mind? cervantes God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment." Friedrich Nietzsche was no feminist, but he apparently appreciated the female mind. He was not the first. Women have been adding zest, wit, intelligence, and compassion to human life since our ancestors stoked their fires in Africa a million years ago. Now women are about to change the world. Why? Because during the millions of years that our forebears traveled in small hunting-and-gathering bands, the sexes did different jobs. Those jobs required different skills. As time and nature tirelessly propagated successful workers, natural selection built different aptitudes into the male and female brain. No two people are the same. But, on average, women and men possess a number of different innate skills. And current trends suggest that many sectors of the twenty-first-century economic community are going to need the natural talents of women. Please do not mistake me. Men have many natural abilities that will be essential in the coming global marketplace. Nor have men been laggards in the past. They have explored and mapped the world; produced most of our literature, arts, and sciences; and invented many of the pleasures of contemporary life, from the printing press to lightbulbs, sneakers, chocolate, and the Internet. Men will continue to make enormous contributions to our high-tech society. But women have begun to enter the paid workforce in record numbers almost everywhere on earth. As these women penetrate, even saturate, the global marketplace in coming decades, I think they will introduce remarkably innovative ideas and practices. What are women's natural talents? How will women change the world? I begi...

Product details

• Authors: Helen Fisher
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.2000
• EAN: 9780449912607
• ISBN: 978-0-449-91260-7
• No. of pages: 378
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Subject: Guides > Health