Book review of Martie Hastelton’s Hormonal by Tiffany Lussier
Feminists have long fought against the sexist perception that women are at the mercy of the ebb and flow of their hormonal cycles. As a consequence, research examining the influence of hormones in women is sometimes met with suspicion and concern that it will reinforce the stereotypes they’ve been working so hard to eradicate. Knowledge is power though, and in her first book, Hormonal, UCLA evolutionary psychologist and feminist Martie Haselton argues that research about reproductive hormones’ influence on women’s minds and behaviour doesn’t contribute to discrimination.… Les mer!