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21 janvier 2013
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Ute Frevert, « Chapter 3. Finding emotions », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.83gh9e
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When reflecting on gender and emotions, finally and inevitably, empathy comes into mind. Women, as nineteenth and early twentieth-century authors seemed to believe, were particularly well equipped to feel what others felt. Their nature, the argument went, allowed them to be more “compassionate and benevolent” than men who often appeared “harsh and cold-hearted,” more interested in their own wellbeing than that of others. Women’s delicate bones, nerves, and blood vessels enabled them to sympat...