The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality - Tapa dura

Challenging the myth that women are naturally weaker than men, a noted feminist writer traces the history of the concept of female physical inferiority and its long-term repercussions in terms of women's health and social status.

equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger?
      
These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The myth of    female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety. It is Dowling's controversial thesis that women succumb to societal pressures to appear weak in order to seem more "feminine."
    
The Frailty Myth presents new evidence that girls are weaned from the use of their bodies even before they begin school. By adolescence, their strength and aerobic powers have started to decline unless the girls are exercising vigorously--and most aren't. By sixteen, they have already lost bone density and turned themselves into prime candidates for oste