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Title: The First Sex : The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World by Helen Fisher ISBN: 0-449-91260-4 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.95 (19 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Female Supremacists Will Love This Book
Comment: ...this book is rather horrendous in its relentlessly cheery women-are-so-much-better-than-men-at-what-really-matters attitude. I could barely make it through the first couple of dozen pages; it was that unbelievable. I'd even say it was so bad that she lost me in the first three pages with her statements about "The Second Sex". (If you don't buy what she says about that you may as well save your time and stop there.) And what's worse is that it's like this from wall to wall, as I discovered when I started jumping around, chapter to chapter, trying out the topics that most interested me, until I'd pretty much read the whole thing -- in utter amazement that anyone could think this way.
As a scientist I'm prepared to listen to reasoned and complex arguments, but Fisher usually just states her conclusions about things as if she'd recently come down from the mountain with The Tablets of Truth and expects us to believe it all even though common sense and experience tells us that a lot of what she says is just plain nonsense. What "evidence" she presents is all one-sided (things are rarely that simple) and meant only to lead to a predictable point. There's no place in this book for any caveats, much less the reader who may ask "but wait, what about _____?" It's not on Fisher's radar screen. She doesn't seem to get it. (Just like a woman...) If you're looking for subtle, unexpected, and profound truths, you won't find any in this book.
... "The First Sex" is nothing but a huge embarassment. It should be a scandal that such a book came out of a mainstream publisher from someone with a position (and a PhD) at what one would have thought was a reputable institution. I suppose it's a sign that academia isn't what it once was.
I'll give it 1/2 - 1 star above the minimum because the chapters on dating/mating actually weren't terrible, not that they were all that great either.
Rating: 1
Summary: arrogant preachy major agenda
Comment: Can't figure out how I pulled myself through this book
without becoming ill.
Fisher is preachy,arrogant,sounds like a "know it all" in
her rant about how her "findings" prove women have a more
well rounded,intuitive and emotional intellegence.
What findings? She lives and breathes pop psychology and
pop science and lives for the all mighty dollar which she
knows will come her way,since America is at this time
obsessed with "gender difference.
In her small world,all behavior is hard wired in your
brain.You brain dictates all behavior and your hormones
are the master of your destiny.She overlooks the fact that
we develope our brains.A girl who plays with dolls will
have a very different brain structure from a girl who
played with spatial enhancing toys.Let's face it,most girls
are raised in an overly protective environment in which
exploration is limited.Mix it with other cultural
limitations on women and girls,and you will get women who
are significantly different in their behavior and
aspirations from men.If a woman or girl has not had these
restraints placed upon her,she will have traits which most
people preceive as only a male domain.
Her preachy writing is very annoying.She comes across as
someone who becomes insecure if she doesn't feel correct
at every turn.
No,this is not women's lib.There is nothing freeing about
the book.It's agenda seems to be to dictate to women.
To make them feel "superior" by "proving" their traits
outweigh men's "gender specific traits" in every way.
Women are individuals,some are spatial,some verbal.Same
with men.To imply that every woman has fixed traits not
only hurts women's chances in math,science and engineering,
but also leaves a woman feeling she is limited by being a
woman.
Rating: 1
Summary: give it a rest fisher!
Comment: What's the point? To seperate men from women to the point we are no longer in contact with one another except to reproduce?
Men are a useless species,it's the message she is sending out to the masses and it is very evil.Men are the enemy,and so very thick according to her 'studies' so to render them to the sidelines of sperm doner and bridge builder.And women can't build a bridge,let alone draw one.Women are religated to the verbal and emotional side."Natural commicators" ?
She has given women quite a load,especially since many women do not fit her pattern of what she believes a woman IS.
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Title: Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen Fisher ISBN: 0449908976 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Why We Love : The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love by Helen Fisher ISBN: 0805069135 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 04 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior by Helen E. Fisher ISBN: 0688015999 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: February, 1983 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce by Helen E. Fisher ISBN: 0393034232 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating by David M. Buss ISBN: 046500802X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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