Additional text: Philadelphia Inquirer Tavris' lucid analysis is sharpened by a wit that punctures the pretensions of experts. This provocative book covers an impressive range of topics and is a thoughtful, challenging contribution to the debate on gender and its social meaning – a humane plea for understanding between men and women. Author information: Carol Tavris, Ph.D., is a social psychologist, lecturer, and writer on many aspects of psychology. Her books include Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion. Tavris is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She lives in Los Angeles. Blurb: When man is the measure of all things, woman is forever trying to measure up. In this enlightening book, Carol Tavris unmasks the widespread but invisible custom – pervasive in the social sciences, medicine, law, and history – of treating men as the normal standard.