Towards the end of this book the author confides that “for me personally the question that is most pressing is why we continue to believe that women are more emotional, more hysterical than men?” Which the reader will probably have guessed having read nearly 350 pages of Pragya Agarwal answering precisely that question in almost all the ways it could be answered.
It is a good question, though. And since the professor is a data scientist — at Loughborough University — it is one that takes a lot of defining and a vast number of citations of disparate pieces of research to back up its arguments. What, after all, is an emotion when it’s at home? In 1890 a pioneering psychologist William James defined four
