1st Edition

Women vs. Women The Case for Cooperation

By Joan Johnson-Freese Copyright 2022
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

Women vs. Women is a book about power dynamics and competition between women. The author argues that women have been mired in competitive quicksand since the beginning of time, often beginning in earnest during adolescence, to their social, economic, and political detriment. Exacerbating differences between women has become a strategy for maintaining male-dominated power structures, so –... Read more

Introduction

1. Shifting Detrimental Competition to Successful Cooperation

2. Women’s "Privileges," Rights and Protections: The Slog Toward Gender Equality

3. Women and Democracy

4. Choosing Sound Public Policy Over Myths

5. Women Standing Together

Biography

Joan Johnson-Freese is a University Professor, and former Department Chair and holder of the Bolden Chair in Science, Space & Technology, at the Naval War College, USA. She teaches classes on grand strategy and Women, Peace, and Society at Harvard University, USA. She writes extensively on space security, military education and gender and security.