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but otherwise, just the same as men’s,” and she critiques the persistent tendency of researchers and physicians to take male bodies as the norm.
“From mouse to human, the male body is what gets studied,” she writes.
In some circles, it is heretical to maintain that women and men are biologically different, largely because such differences have in the past been manipulated toward misogynist ends.
Ms. Bohannon believes that “while the majority of scientists still effectively ignore the female body, there’s a quiet revolution in the science of womanhood brewing.”
Persons:
Juan Roballo, Simone de Beauvoir, ”, Bohannon, Barnes, “
Organizations:
Noble, Columbia University