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Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it 12 years ago
This book left me unsatisfied and feeling less feminine than before I started (the book cover doesn't help either with it's stereotyped images overlaying a brain shape). It read to me like a "women good, men bad" 1970's/80's feminist diatribe with a softer overlay. Instead of informing it confused...
A Book Every Other Day
A Book Every Other Day rated it 12 years ago
The train wreck started with the initial characterization of the hormones. Establishing the hormones with a particular gender and giving them “jobs” that fit with gender roles does not bode well for the hope to see an objective look at the female brain without sexist stereotypes or gender roles mudd...
Sheziss loves Zeshak
Sheziss loves Zeshak rated it 12 years ago
Thanks to this book, my mother and I hug more often in order to secrete oxytocin so she doesn't abandon me. It works.
Kristin Reads
Kristin Reads rated it 13 years ago
It was an interesting read, but nothing I haven't already learned in my psychology courses! But I do want to buy The Female Brain now!
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 14 years ago
I don't think Brizendine presents anything in this book that hasn't been thoroughly debunked elsewhere. As science, it's crap.
Zrinka
Zrinka rated it 15 years ago
I found this book better than expected. I know that some people see her ideas as neurosexism, pseudoscience (or just bad science), but despite all of its flaws, the lesson of this book is extremely important. Women's perception of reality changes from day to day under the influence of hormones. Forg...
JasonKoivu
JasonKoivu rated it 16 years ago
The way some men talk about women I'd assumed they'd think The Female Brain was a work of fiction, "'Cuzzin' they ain't got none! Heeyuck, heeyuck!" It's too bad most of them are illiterate, because those guys are the ones that need to read this the most.In The Female Brain, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Lo...
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it 17 years ago
This book left me unsatisfied and feeling less feminine than before I started (the book cover doesn't help either with it's stereotyped images overlaying a brain shape). It read to me like a "women good, men bad" 1970's/80's feminist diatribe with a softer overlay. Instead of informing it confused a...
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