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Article: Montagu, Ashley. The Natural Superiority of Women.(Book Review)
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- Communication Research Trends
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- September 22, 1999
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Montagu, Ashley. The Natural Superiority of Women. 5th Edition. Walnut Creek, CA/London/New Delhi: AltaMira Press (a Division of Sage Publications), 1999. Pp. 335. ISBN 0-7619-8981-1 (hb.) $49.95, 0-7619-8982-X (pb.) $19.95.
This book is not a "feminist" disquisition of the 1990s, as the title might seem to suggest, but it is a serious rebuttal to extreme biological determinist arguments by a prominent physical anthropologist and was originally published in 1953.
Montagu is a "Boasian"--a student and follower of Franz Boas, one of the founders of American anthropology early in the 1900s--and, consequently, firmly committed to challenging the ...