We all know the commonly-held beliefs about communication between the sexes. And the result? An unavoidable catalogue of misunderstanding.

With wry humour and intellectual rigor, Deborah Cameron questions how well these ‘facts’ stack up against the evidence, and demonstrates why it matters.

I will fill in my thoughts later, after I've checked whether someone else is interested in this book.

Couldn't resist taking this home from the meetup tonight. I read an older book by Cameron when I did gender studies and found it extremely interesting. Let's see how this compares!

I enjoyed this a lot, although a lot of the subject matter I was familiar with already, having done gender studies at the uni.

One of the most eye-opening chapters to me was the one about the myth of male-female misunderstanding and particularly the section about 'just say no' in rape situations.

Being a mother to a 2.5-year old boy, I pay even more attention than before to how I speak about gender and gender roles, and that's probably why I also found the chapters about brains, genes and evolution and gender, identity and style particularly interesting.

Next off to KiwiinEngland as part of Vekiki's Nonfiction VBB. Enjoy!

Thank you very much, safely arrived in Dublin.

This book travelled with me when I moved back to New Zealand in 2012, and I just can’t seem to pick it up at the right time to want to read it.

So, I’m going to send it out into the world again.

Taken to a meal held at Aloha Apartments, in Burnt Pine.

If you aren't familiar with Bookcrossing, take a few minutes to check out this very cool site. Bookcrossers LOVE books, and more than anything, they love to read books and then set them free for other people to find and enjoy. I would love it if you would leave a journal entry -- you can say where you found the book or how you liked it when you read it.

Picked up at the Bookcrossing event on Norfolk Island. Thank you.

An interesting read, but rather on the light side. There were lots of references given, but it would be hard and very time consuming to actually track down all the references that were given to check them. I could have suggested that the author give some internet links to references, except that many research papers are blocked beyond a short section, unless one pays to read the rest. Maybe more could have been quoted from the references though.
This is a timely book though to counter all the myths that Mars and Venus type books put out. One of my pet grievances, is that women can't read maps. Really! I am female and never found this a problem, and I am not unique. I remember one of these books had a survey that was meant to show how females and males viewed some things differently and would give different answers. The survey started with, if you are female, add this much to your score (I can't remember the exact amount but it was sizable). Naturally that guaranteed I would get a different score to males answering the same questions. Funny thing was that when I removed the extra score I had to add for being female (and the males didn't add), I got the same score as the males. Who would have figured that!!!

Leaving this book in the LFL in Bundeela Street in Narrabundah for the next reader. Enjoy, and it is always wonderful when the book is logged.


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