Why Men Don't Iron: Real Science of Gender Studies (A Channel Four Book)

by Anne Moir

Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

305.31

Genres

Collections

Non-fiction & Reference, Popular Science

Publication

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (1998), Edition: Film and TV Tie-in Ed, Paperback, 320 pages

Description

Why Men Don't Iron is an eye-opening, mind-blowing book on how the major sex differences in our brains impact on our daily lives and behaviour. Men are not women and yet for the last decade have been told to get in touch with the feminine side of their nature. Men have in fact been told to connect to parts of their brain that do not exist. So what are the essential, unique qualities of men? In a time when the debate on the 'feminisation of education' and the nanny state, 'the feminisation of the state', is just beginning, this book is timely and highly controversial.

User reviews

LibraryThing member kaelirenee

Here's what I was expecting: A book about how nauture shapes a male and female brain. Hormones acting on brain development help determine that a boy will be better at spatial activities and a girl will be better at verbal. I have read a book that does this well, including adding suggestions on how

to help children learn (Boys and Girls Learn Differently!). I was hoping Why Men Don't Iron would be a grown-up version of this-kind of a biological Men are from Mars.

I was very disappointed. Rather than actually getting in to the biology of sex differences (which is what the authors repeatedly say they are doing in this book), they rail against gender studies and metrosexuals, constantly talking about the women and homosexual agenda to turn men into women. I've missed this one. I'm sure it happens somewhere, but this book is not the remedy.

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