Using what they call the polydiagnostic* method of assessment, Tufts University Sociologists Edward M. Bennett and Harriet M. Goodwin set out to analyze the U.S. woman as a political creature. Before the American Sociological Society convention in Washington last week, they presented their findings in the language of Freud rather than that of Carmine De Sapio or Leonard Hall.
After interviewing 384 Greater Boston housewives, they concluded that women who vote Democratic are "tender-minded" while Republican women are "tough-minded." The female Democrats "feel a social warmth in the people around them, and they feel much the same warmth in their...
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