Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture

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It's very easy to read and get into, and should make for just about the best 3-credit class you've ever taken. The course that I took this book with in college was very interesting, entertaining, and all around good. This book was the key ingredient to our classwork and there is tons of information that will stick with you forever after you read it.

I used this book for class, and it was hell reading it. The overall theme of this book is man bashing, and bases too much on stereotypes.

It needs to be more oraganized and maybe less man biased like the other two men said. It was interesting to read, but she put so much facts in there that I couldn't remember everything that she said. Before bashing me or my review, I'm a woman.Edit: I put two stars, but I meant one, I changed my mind. I didn't like the book. I had to read it for class.

So much for an unbiased presentaton :) While I don't doubt the author's intentions weren't honestly good, the prescence of society influenced bias is ever present.Just to point out a lone example from the first chapter, "In general, African American women are more assertive than European American women, and African American men tend to be more communal than White men".Notice how she cares to use extensive titles for women and African American men, but when she discusses European American males we are merely "White" males.

Wood is guilty of the same spiteful attacks on men that she portrays as happening to women. Many feminists may find this refreshing and validating, but it does little to foster better communication or interaction with members of the opposite sex. Julia Wood takes every chance she can to insult and denigrate men. In fact, the only men she will acknowledge in a positive way are those who have distinctly "feminine" traits.