Is Patriarchy Inevitable?

Is Patriarchy Inevitable?

In our Spring 1975 issue we carried Devra Lee Davis’s review of Steven Goldberg’s recent book, The Inevitability of Patriarchy. Below we print a comment Steven Goldberg has sent us on that review and Devra Lee Davis’s response. —Eds.

Steven Goldberg Comments

I can understand that Dissent would greet with something less than enthusiasm a work that emphasizes the physiological roots of behavior—even I would prefer that a journal of the Left underrate, rather than exaggerate, the importance of physiological differentiation to behavior and institution. But I do think that an author has the right to expect that a reviewer will at least pr...