Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: AltaMira Pre
Keywords: women, superiority, natural
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-07-13
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 076198982X
ISBN-13: 9780761989820

Among the central issues of the modern feminist movement, the debate over biology and culture over sex and gender, over genetics and gender roles has certainly been one of the most passionately contested. Making revolutionary arguments upon its first publication in 1953, "The Natural Superiority of Women" stands as one of the original feminist arguments against biological determinism. An iconoclast, Montagu wielded his encyclopedic knowledge of physical anthropology in critique of the conventional wisdom of women as the "weaker sex," showing how women’s biological, genetic, and physical

Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: swearing, anatomy
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2001-03-29
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0812217640
ISBN-13: 9780812217643

Although the act of swearing, or cursing, has today been reduced to the four-letter interjection and unimaginative put-down, this has not always been the case. Elegant, sublime oaths and vicious imprecations mark the history of human conduct and language. Shedding light on the forbidden, misunderstood, and clandestinely pursued forms of interpersonal communication, The Anatomy of Swearing uniquely documents the history of taboo words and phrases. It presents the curious inquirer with a summary of what the best minds and most accomplished practitioners of the art have said and done inventively

Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: Whitley Pre
Keywords: race, fallacy, myth, dangerous, man
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1406733237
ISBN-13: 9781406733235

MANS MOST DANGEROUS MYTH The Fallacy of Race By M. F. ASHLEY MONTAGU with a foreword by ALDOUS HUXLEY SECOND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK FIRST EDITION 1942 SECOND EDITION 1945 First printing 1945 Second printing 1946 Third printing COPYRIGHT 1945, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW YORK PUBLISHED IN C. RFAT BRITAIN AND INDIA BY GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, LONDON AND BOMBAY MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To BERN DIBNER Ethnic facts, though they constitute the main problem in the early stages of his tory, gradually lose momentum in

Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: race, fallacy, myth, dangerous, man
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 1997-11-26
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0803946481
ISBN-13: 9780803946484

Man’s Most Dangerous Myth was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people’s character and intelligence. It presented a revolutionary theory for its time; breaking the link between genetics and culture, it argued that race is largely a social construction and not constitutive of significant biological differences between people. In the ensuing 55 years, as Ashley Montagu’s radical hypothesis became accepted knowledge, succeeding editions of his book traced the changes

Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: Acadian House Publishing
Keywords: dignity, human, study, man, elephant
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2001-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0925417416
ISBN-13: 9780925417411

After more than a century, the mystery of "The Elephant Man" has been solved. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts and imaginations of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now complete. The mystifying question has been answered: How could this poor, deformed fellow, so cruelly treated by his fellowman for so long, turn out to be such a gentle, loving creature? Read about it in the new Third Edition of The Elephant Man by Ashley Montagu -- the book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name.

Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey Paperback
Keywords: second, growing
Number of Pages: 303
Published: 1988-12-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 089789166X
ISBN-13: 9780897891660

In this revised edition of his landmark book, Montagu compels us to reevaluate the way we think about growth and development, in all its phases, throughout life. Humans are designed to grow and develop their childlike qualities, and not to become the ossified adults prescribed by society. Montagu demonstrates how our culture, schools, and families are in conspiracy against such childlike traits as the need to love, to learn, to explore, to be creative, to sing and play. He reveals the many links between physical and mental aging and tells how to prevent "psychosclerosis," the hardening of the

Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: skin, significance, human, touching
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1986-09-10
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0060960280
ISBN-13: 9780060960285

With more than 300,000 copies sold, this landmark book is an impressive examination of the importance of touching. "All professionals concerned with human behavior will find something of value. . . . Parents . . . can gain insight into the nurturing needs of infants."--Janet Rhoads, American Journal of Occupational Therapy