Are you acquainted with Iain McGilchrist's work? He makes a similar point but its all in the mind. Research on the difference between the brain hemispheres indicates the left is what you call male and the right is what you call female and the distinction was only discovered with studies of them acting separately- as with a stroke or lesion. Normally the hemispheres work so well together that this big difference does not appear to out conscious selves.
Further, this hemispheres distinction goes at least as far back as fish. Both capacities appear to be necessary for vertebrate life to flourish.
McGilchrist argues that while both are important the right is most important and our society for various reasons privileges the left.
Check out his remarkable "The Master and His Emissary."
You'd probably find "Orlando" fascinating if you've never read it. Woolf is one of the (very few) authors whose grasp exceeds reasonable doubt. Every piece of it has meaning and it requires the whole held in tension.
Are you acquainted with Iain McGilchrist's work? He makes a similar point but its all in the mind. Research on the difference between the brain hemispheres indicates the left is what you call male and the right is what you call female and the distinction was only discovered with studies of them acting separately- as with a stroke or lesion. Normally the hemispheres work so well together that this big difference does not appear to out conscious selves.
Further, this hemispheres distinction goes at least as far back as fish. Both capacities appear to be necessary for vertebrate life to flourish.
McGilchrist argues that while both are important the right is most important and our society for various reasons privileges the left.
Check out his remarkable "The Master and His Emissary."
You'd probably find "Orlando" fascinating if you've never read it. Woolf is one of the (very few) authors whose grasp exceeds reasonable doubt. Every piece of it has meaning and it requires the whole held in tension.
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