Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality: An Essay on Cultural Reproduction

In this book Melford Spiro investigates ideologies of gender and sex relations in Burma, according to which men are superior and women are morally and sexually dangerous-despite the reality that women actually enjoy high economic, legal, and social status. Spiro argues that these sexist ideologies-prevalent in most of the human world-are an expression of male anxieties and insecurities.