The Double Standard: A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science

First published in 1980, The Double Standard is a powerfully written book challenging the logic of much of the feminist literature in the social sciences. Although loyal to the tradition of feminist scholarship, Margaret Eichler argues that many feminist writers have unintentionally reinforced the sexual stereotypes that they seek to destroy, by using the wrong conceptual tools and the wrong language.

The terms like ‘sex roles’ and ‘sex identity’ have been especially distorting because they ...