![]() ![]() Subject: Re: Debunking the Men from Mars/Women from Venus canard Hi Martin, et al., Depending on whether intended for class use (and which class.) or for your personal edification, I recommend the opening sections of Eve Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet where she states the obvious in beautiful prose: we're not all the same. lingfang Cheng Graduate Institute of Gender Studies, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan lingfang AT = Subject: Re: Debunking the Men from Mars/Women from Venus canard I recommend Allan Johnson's Gender Knot, 1997/2005 Temple University Press for his systematic criticism on this kind of arguement. ![]() Reading suggestions? Martin Dufresne (who is from Saturn, actually) martin AT = Subject: Debunking the Men from Mars/Women from Venus canard I am looking for good rebuttals to this normative type of discourse. For more WMST-L files available on the Web, see the WMST-L File Collection. Messages from both discussions appear below. ![]() A second, shorter discussion took place in 2009. ![]() Critiques of John Gray's Mars/Venus TheoryĬritiques of John Gray's Mars/Venus Theory John Gray has obtained both fame and fortune for his theory that men and women differ fundamentally in the way they use language to communicate, or, in Gray's popularization, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus." A WMST-L discussion in 2007 began with a request for critiques of Gray's argument. ![]()
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