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The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

By: Colette Dowling

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: September 2001

Seller ID: 308672

ISBN: 0375758151

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Can women be 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 ...
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The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

By: Dowling, Colette

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Summit Books: May 1981

Seller ID: 340921

ISBN: 0671400525

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Author:Colette Dowling

The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence