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The first edition of this book was lavishly praised by many authorities as the most formidable demonstration of an unpopular truth: males rule in all societies known to history or anthropology, for reasons arising from innate physiology, a brute fact that can never be conjured away by tinkering with social institutions.
This new edition has been completely rewritten in the light of two decades of scholarship and debate, taking account of all published criticisms of earlier editions.
Why Men Rule
by Goldberg, StevenFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1993-11-01
Publisher(s): Open Court Pub Co
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Author Biography
Steven Goldberg is Chairman of the Department of Sociology at City College, City University of New York.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| A Question and Some Ground Rules | p. 9 |
| The Question of Male and Female | p. 9 |
| Superiority and Inferiority | p. 10 |
| Anthropology and the Limits of Social Variation | p. 13 |
| The Approach of This Study | p. 13 |
| Patriarchy Defined | p. 14 |
| The Universality of Patriarchy | p. 15 |
| The Evolutionary Fallacy | p. 17 |
| The 'Prehistoric Matriarchies', the 'Amazons', and Engels | p. 18 |
| Modern Societies | p. 23 |
| Male Dominance Defined | p. 28 |
| The Universality of Male Dominance | p. 31 |
| The Universality of Male Attainment | p. 35 |
| The Hunt for 'Exceptions' to Universality | p. 39 |
| Two Hypotheses Tested | p. 45 |
| Does Any Society Reverse Childhood Socialization? | p. 47 |
| The Meaning of Universality | p. 48 |
| Universality Does Not Imply Inevitability | p. 49 |
| The Relevance of Cultural Variation | p. 51 |
| Grounds for an Empirical Refutation | p. 57 |
| Differentiation of Dominance Tendency | p. 63 |
| The Need for a Simple Explanation | p. 63 |
| A Short Summary of the Theory Presented in This Book | p. 64 |
| The Differentiation of Dominance Tendency | p. 65 |
| Seven Claims That Are Neither Assumed Nor Implied | p. 70 |
| The Iron and Magnet Analogy | p. 73 |
| First Digression: The 'Non-Patriarchal Society' as Refutation | p. 74 |
| Physiological Differentiation | p. 77 |
| The Meaning of the Physiological Evidence | p. 78 |
| Human Hermaphrodites | p. 81 |
| Tomboyism | p. 85 |
| Testosterone and Dominance Tendency | p. 88 |
| The Irrelevance of Exceptions | p. 93 |
| Feedback and Suggestion | p. 95 |
| Physiology and Within-Sex Differences | p. 96 |
| Dominance Behavior in Boys and Girls | p. 97 |
| A Crucial Question This Book Leaves Unanswered | p. 98 |
| Physiological Evolution | p. 99 |
| Second Digression: Race and IQ, Territoriality, and Male Bonding | p. 100 |
| Social Conformation to Psychophysiological Reality | p. 103 |
| Socialization | p. 103 |
| Two Additional Aspects of Socialization | p. 106 |
| The Mbuti Pygmies | p. 107 |
| The Limits of Possibility | p. 109 |
| Social Exaggeration of the Physiological | p. 110 |
| Discrimination of a Sort | p. 111 |
| The Future | p. 113 |
| Three Methodological Observations | p. 116 |
| The Inadequacy of a Non-Physiological Explanation | p. 121 |
| The Weight of the Evidence | p. 121 |
| The Environmentalist's Dilemma | p. 123 |
| Alternative Explanations of Universality | p. 125 |
| The Fallacy of the Irrelevant Experiment | p. 130 |
| Confusion and Fallacy in the Environmentalist Analysis | p. 135 |
| The Necessity of Theory | p. 135 |
| The Environmentalist Assumption | p. 136 |
| Four Fallacies | p. 138 |
| Vulgarized Marxism | p. 145 |
| The Failure to Ask 'Why?' | p. 148 |
| Third Digression: The Obscurantism of an Inadequate Analysis | p. 149 |
| Common Objections to the Theory of Male Dominance | p. 155 |
| Twenty-five Questions to Ask about Any Criticism of the Theory of Male Dominance | p. 155 |
| An Aside on the Role of Neuro-endocrinological and Experimental Evidence | p. 173 |
| The Appeal to Variation and 'Complexity': The Case of Philip Green | p. 176 |
| Possible Sexual Differentiation in Cognitive Aptitudes | p. 197 |
| Sexual Differentiation in Modes of Cognition | p. 198 |
| Evidence for the Correctness of the Stereotype | p. 199 |
| Environmentalist Objections and the Validity of Stereotypes | p. 207 |
| Social Implications of Sexual Cognitive Differences | p. 210 |
| High Genius in the Arts and Sciences | p. 213 |
| Male and Female | p. 223 |
| Appendix: Alleged Exceptions to the Universality of Patriarchy and Male Dominance | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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