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For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it.

Whether looking at intelligence or emotion, cognition or behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different. Biologists claim that women are better suited to raising families or are, more gently, uniquely empathetic. Men, on the other hand, continue to be described as excelling at tasks that require logic, spatial reasoning, and motor skills. But a huge wave of research is now revealing an alternative version of what we thought we knew.

Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas and considered race a social construct, it was an idea that still managed to somehow survive in the way scientists thought about human variation and genetics. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, Angela Saini shows us how, again and again, even mainstream scientists cling to the idea that race is biologically real.

Per centinaia di anni è stato un luogo comune: le donne sono il sesso debole, inferiore. Sono fisicamente più deboli, meno intelligenti, subordinate per natura. Persino uno studioso del calibro di Charles Darwin afferma che le donne si collocano a un gradino più basso dell'evoluzione, e per decenni gli scienziati - tutti uomini, ovviamente - hanno portato prove a sostegno di questa tesi. Che si tratti di intelligenza o emotività, di capacità di apprendere o di comportamento, la scienza ha continuato a dirci che uomini e donne sono sostanzialmente diversi.

Was ist das Patriarchat, und wie ist es entstanden? Jahrhundertelang sahen Gesellschaften mAnnliche Vorherrschaft als natUrlich an. Was aber, wenn wir nicht davon ausgehen, dass MAnner stets Uber Frauen herrschten? Wenn wir die Ungleichheit der Geschlechter als etwas Fragiles wahrnehmen, das immer wieder neu durchgesetzt werden muss? Die preisgekrOnte Autorin Angela Saini erzAhlt radikal neu, was wir "Patriarchat" nennen.