- ISBN13: 9780385498418
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With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times’s premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body. Angier takes readers on a mesmerizing tour of female anatomy and physiology that explores everything from organs to orgasm, and delves into topics such as exercise, menopause, and the mysterious properties of breas… More >>
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#1 by George Weir on April 17, 2010 - 10:13 am
I don’t think there is anything remarkable in this book. All of the knowledge can be readily found in any textbook for first-year colloge student in “Human Sexulity” course. For more depth and professionally precise infomation, any medical textbook on gynecology contains infomation on female anatomy, physiology, and sexuality — presented professionally and with authortiy. (But textbooks mentioned above usually are not displayed in commercial bookstores. But you can find them in Amazon.com). That’s why to many laymen this book sounds like a new discovery of female. It’s not. Also regarding the question of “what women want”, Natalier Angier guesses it’s a satisfaction of “a desire for emotional parity” (parity = equality in status, pay, rights, etc). That’s a nonsense. “…a desire for emotional parity is widespread and profound. It doesn’t go away, although it often hibernates under duress”, Angier wrote in a New York Times article last year. It sounds that women are pitifully under oppression! That’s again a nonsense. By the way, the really authoritive persons qualified to write about women physiology and psychology and anatomy is medical doctors and researcher like Williams Masters, etc….
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on April 17, 2010 - 12:29 pm
Completely asinine. I was severely disappointed and dismayed at Angier’s depiction of women. It is full of contradictory and faulty evolutionary biology. Narrow minded and crass. I literally took this book outside and burned it half way through reading it.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Concerned on April 17, 2010 - 12:50 pm
I would hope that this book is a joke. I have never read something that does so little for women. We do not have to worry about men giving women a bad name, this book does it just fine. This book is mostly written in a crude and vulgar tone that will turn off most readers. For example, the author refers to a whale penis as a “ten foot rod,” and made a comment that states that women should be asexual and procreate by themselves. So much for gender equality! We are going backwards here.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by M. Peppard on April 17, 2010 - 3:28 pm
This book is an excellent compilation of feminist ideas couched as theories that you can share with the men in your life to ensure they leave you alone. Very alone. The chapter on yeast infections and the chemical composition of that “off” smell alone makes it a must read for any serious misandrist.
Seriously… pass this one by, but do get the bibliography. The book is a farce, but some of the papers it quotes are good science.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on April 17, 2010 - 5:13 pm
This book is very weak on science and very strong on polemics–a feminist rant based on the work of a handful of interviews with a handful of scholars and, as the reader says below, a mighty slow slog. The author seems in sad need of editing (she seems overly fond of her own screaming voice) and of someone to remind her that in science, at least, evidence is all. This book has all the literary charm of a greeting card, and all the power of a burned out light bulb. Rather than sell it at the end of the semeter, as a reader suggests below, I’d advise that you give it a pass altogether.
Rating: 1 / 5