I have the 1981 edition of _The Mismeasure of Man_. Here's the exact quotation: A Note on title: I hope that an apparently sexist title will be taken in the intended spirit--not only as a play on Protagoras' famous aphorism, but also as a commentary on the procedure of the biological determinists discussed in the book. They did, indeed, study "man" (that is white European males), regarding this group as a standard nd everybody else to be measured unfavorably against it. That they mismeasured "man" underscores the double fallacy. (p. 16)
Yours, Frances Bolton
On Mon, 11 May 1998
freeberg at bilbo.bio.purdue.edu wrote: >
> I cannot recall exactly the original reference Gould made to
> the use of "Man" in the title, published in the preface to the
> original 1981 edition of the book (not included in this new
> edition). In my very short and very rough version of it, he
> argued that the book intended to show that, beyond the issue
> of the sexism or racism inherent in our language and in how
> we think about and act in the world, we couldn't even
> measure what we trying to measure in men correctly. Those
> trying to find differences inherent in groups of human beings
> from the onset looked, generally, at only half of the world's
> human beings, and then mismeasured the hell out of that half.
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