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Summary: Really Tired Of This Sexist Nonsense!
Review: As a young girl I excelled in math and had many problems with learning language.Also I played with trucks and guns as a child with boys and other girls as well.An "expert" has yet to explain girls who are agressive,excell in mechanics and math and play with trucks as children.I believe there is a comspiracy out there against women,the post feminist era has been wrought with books about women being passive,sexless, fearful and unable to excell in math,unable to fend for themselves and unable to find themselves through mazes. Interesting how the writer is a woman and many are probably because they want other women to have the same self doubt they have.What we need are books that inspire young women, books that nuture their natural HUMAN aggressiveness rather than view it as unnatural or unbecoming.This book is just another Mars and Venus revamped as baby Mars and Venus. Girls do not need to be boxed into a sub social group,what they need is a book that helps them with their individual strengths as INDIVIDUALS!
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Summary: I highly recommend this book.
Review: As a young girl I excelled in math and had many problems with learning language.Also I played with trucks and guns as a child with boys and other girls as well.An "expert" has yet to explain girls who are agressive,excell in mechanics and math and play with trucks as children.I believe there is a comspiracy out there against women,the post feminist era has been wrought with books about women being passive,sexless, fearful and unable to excell in math,unable to fend for themselves and unable to find themselves through mazes. Interesting how the writer is a woman and many are probably because they want other women to have the same self doubt they have.What we need are books that inspire young women, books that nuture their natural HUMAN aggressiveness rather than view it as unnatural or unbecoming.This book is just another Mars and Venus revamped as baby Mars and Venus. Girls do not need to be boxed into a sub social group,what they need is a book that helps them with their individual strengths as INDIVIDUALS!
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Summary: Really Tired Of This Sexist Nonsense!
Review: As a young girl I excelled in math and had many problems with learning language.Also I played with trucks and guns as a child with boys and other girls as well.An "expert" has yet to explain girls who are agressive,excell in mechanics and math and play with trucks as children.I believe there is a comspiracy out there against women,the post feminist era has been wrought with books about women being passive,sexless, fearful and unable to excell in math,unable to fend for themselves and unable to find themselves through mazes. Interesting how the writer is a woman and many are probably because they want other women to have the same self doubt they have.What we need are books that inspire young women, books that nuture their natural HUMAN aggressiveness rather than view it as unnatural or unbecoming.This book is just another Mars and Venus revamped as baby Mars and Venus. Girls do not need to be boxed into a sub social group,what they need is a book that helps them with their individual strengths as INDIVIDUALS!
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Summary: I highly recommend this book.
Review: I recommend this book to would-be parents and those interested in child development.I picked up this book while on vacation and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It helped me look at child development in a completely different way. Susan Gilbert summarizes current hypotheses and findings in a way that I found logical and interesting. The most important point that I think she makes is that 'when observing groups of boys and girls, researchers are bound to see more variation in gender-typed behavior between the individuals than between the boys as a group compared to the girls as a group.' As Gilbert says, "when it comes to gender-typed behavior, most children don't fit the mold. Even when researchers find differences between boys and girls, the differences are fairly minor and it's often fewer than half the children who skew the results... For example, one gender difference is that boys play rougher than girls, meaning that they're more likely to pummel, wrestle, and mock-fight each other. According to one study, even this difference is not so great. It's a relatively small number of the boys--15 to 20 percent who score higher than any of the girls in assessments of rough-and-tumble play. So, most boys and girls fall in the same range. ... Those of us who are doing fieldwork everyday--that is, parents observing our children--are bound to see more variation between any two children, regardless of their sex, than we'll see between a group of boys and a group of girls." My only criticism of the book is that like many books written for the layperson it doesn't have a comprehensive list of references to the studies quoted in the book. On the plus side, Carol Nagy Jacklin, Ph.D. endorses the book: she is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology, University of Southern California. The reputable Dr. Jacklin praises Gilbert's research in the foreword. However as a scientist, I feel that I must verify Gilbert's research and conclusions through reading additional sources.
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Summary: A MUST HAVE FOR PARENTS RAISING BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS
Review: THIS IS AN EASY TO READ BOOK THAT GIVES A VERY DOWN TO EARTH PERSPECTIVE ON ALL THE ISSUES THAT SEEM TO BE GENDER SPECIFIC. THE BOOK DOES NOT ADVOCATE ANY SPECIFIC CHILDHOOD THEORIES BUT GIVES A VERY BALANCED REVIEW. LIKE A GOOD CONVERSATION WITH EXPERIENCED PARENTS AND PEDIATRICIANS.
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