The Female Brain

from nevusmom

I dunno. This just didn't grab me like I thought it would. So much of what the author writes about is really self-evident, although I suppose she backs up her "findings" with a certain amount of science. I suppose this book could be used as a resource when attempting to explain to a new dad why t...

from christineplouvier

There's a bit too much overlap between the companion books "The Female Brain" and "The Male Brain." But bearing in mind that correlation is not causation, that there's almost infinite individual variability between human beings that the generalizations in this book tend to obscure, and that as a ...

from startwithgivens

While this book provides a great deal of insight into the innate female brain, it does take a strictly nature (as opposed to nurture) point of view on the topic. Only in the appendix does Brizendine acknowledge that environmental affects influence the wiring of the brain. Her accounts are based o...

from aubreyfs

A fabulously informative book that really shows how hormones play into our major life changes. A few tidbits: In some societies, anthropologists have found that the presence of a grandmother improves a child's prospect for survival much more than the presence of a father. After menopause, a woman...

from ruinedbyreading

You know how men are always complaining that they don't understand women? Or that they wish someone would write a book about how to understand them? The Female Brain sets out to explain why women do what they do from infancy to menopause. It explains the hormonal changes behind and biological rea...