Archive: Book Reviews
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Jul 16, 2010
No CommentsBook Review: Reclaiming the F Word
Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune want something from you. Their demand isn’t as impossible to achieve as you may have been led to think. In fact, they go to great lengths to show you how other women are already doing it and how you can, too! So, what do they want? In their book Reclaiming the...
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May 25, 2010
4 CommentsBook Review Part II “Emergency Man”: How Wives Should Treat Their Husbands Like Toddlers
Chapter Six of John Gray’s new book Venus on Fire, Mars on Ice titled “Emergency Man–The Real Reason Women Need You,” revolves around the premise that wives should accept, and even relish, all of the responsibilities of the house and home, even if she works a full time job (I assume that this applies to...
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May 10, 2010
4 CommentsBook Review Part I: “Venus on Fire Mars on Ice”–Reiterating Patriarchal Gender Roles
John Gray’s new book Venus on Fire, Mars on Ice takes some wonderful new scientific insights about hormones and the connection between physical and emotional health and stuffs them right back in to the same old patriarchal constructs. Gray sticks to the traditional assumption that sex and gender are one in the same, and continues to operate...