Product Description: Poullain de La Barre's De l'égalité des deux sexes is one of the earliest and most important statements on the difference between "sex" and "gender." Published in 1673, Poullain's treatise argues that the popular opinion of the inferiority of women is little more that socialized prejudice, legitimized by historians and philosophers who falsely assign their bias to nature rather than to their own psycho-sexual fears of female power...read more