Psychologist and writer CAROL TAVRIS. Terry will talk with her about two things: Her latest book, "The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex." (Simon & Schuster). In the book, TAVRIS looks at the widespread but unacknowledged custom in the social sciences, medicine, law and history, of treating men as the normal standard and women as abnormal. TAVRIS shows that the real differences in gender are in power, resources, and life experiences. Also TAVRIS recently wrote a review of two books dealing with incest, "Beware the Incest-Survivor Machine," (The New York Times Book Review, Jan 3, 1993) in which she calls for a more reasoned, cautious approach to a very complicated issue. The review received a fire-storm of letters from readers (Feb. 14, 1993).
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