Non-Fiction Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History, by Robert S. McElvaine (McGraw-Hill, $16.95). Flip Freud on the sex war and what do you get? Instead of his famous female envy of a certain male body part, we have "womb envy," an abiding sense of male inadequacy in the face of women's unique child-bearing gift. So at least insists this wide-ranging gallop through the history of human evolution, from pre-recorded times to the present, that seeks to explain the persistence of misogyny in modern culture, religion and even science. "Hell hath no fury like a man devalued," posits McElvaine in his opening salvo. After taking a gander at some of the eye-popping evidence, even Freud might be persuaded to agree. -- Zofia Smardz
Non-Fiction
Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History, by Robert S. McElvaine (McGraw-Hill, $16.95). Flip Freud on the sex war and what do you get? Instead of his famous female envy of a certain male body part, we have "womb envy," an abiding sense of male inadequacy in the face of women's unique child-bearing gift. So at least insists this wide-ranging gallop through the history of human evolution, from pre-recorded times to the present, that seeks to explain the persistence of misogyny in modern culture, religion and even science. "Hell hath no fury like a man devalued," posits McElvaine in his opening salvo. After taking a gander at some of the eye-popping evidence, even Freud might be persuaded to agree.
-- Zofia Smardz
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