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ja! Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. If you've ever wanted a qualitative, beautiful and well-written review of women's biology, this book is half of a "here ya go." The other half is going to incur some eye rolls with the seriously dated "women drive like this! men drive like this!" kinda stuff. (  ) damsorrow | Jun 11, 2009 |  Who knew human anatomy could be so fun? Ms. Angier is like an informative and witty museum tour guide, taking the reader on a stroll past living exhibits of all uniquely feminine aspects of human physiology. A fascinating and revealing book that should be read by every woman (and probably men too!). ( ) ryner | Mar 31, 2009 | I could not finish this book. While it may not be fair to review a book that I didn't read all of, I think what annoyed me is relevant for the whole book. It was the tone - the don't worry science isn't boring I am going to be funky and hip and gals we are all on this great trip together tone - that put me off. I am not saying that the science in this book had to be dry, but I was so distracted by Angier's attempts to distinguish herself as such a 'hip' writer that I didn't absorb much of the message. Which is a shame - I have read articles by Angier before, and enjoyed them. She is obviously extremely intelligent, and has some great insights. I just couldn't bare to read through every chapter to find signs of them. (  ) ForrestFamily | Nov 18, 2008 | Favorite quotes: "Women need muscle, as much as they can muster. They need muscle to shield their light bones, and they need muscle to weather illness… And being strong in a blunt way, a muscle headed way, is easier than being skilled at a sport. It is a democratic option, open to the klutzes and the latecomers, and women should seize the chance to become cheaply, frowzily strong, because the chance exists, and let’s be honest, we don’t have many. Being strong won’t make you happy or fulfilled, but it’s better to be sullen and strong than sullen and weak." Women…never bought Freud’s idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have a semiautomatic? ..it’s natural for girls to fatten up when they mature, but what natural means is subject to cultural definition, and our culture still hasn’t figured out how to handle fat. …we are intolerant of fatness, we are repulsed by it, and we see it as a sign of weak character and sloth. Girls, poor girls, are in the thick of our intolerance and vacillation. …And then they are subject to the creed of total control, the idea that we can subdue and discipline out bodies if we work out very hard at it. Any sane and observant girl is bound to conclude that her looks matter and that she can control her face as she controls her body, through makeup and the proper skin care regimen and parsing her facial features and staying on guard and paying attention and thinking about it, really thinking about it….If she is smart she knows that it is foolish to obsess over her appearance….But if she is smart, she has observed the ubiquitous Face and knows of its staggering powers. By all indications, a controlled body and a beautiful face practically guarantee a powerful womanhood. Life is lived by the day, and most days aren’t Christmas. There’s a principle in evolutionary thinking called the naturalistic fallacy—making the mistake of assuming that what is, is for the best. You don’t want to look muscular? You want to look toned? But your not a Gregorian chant: you’re a century-in-waiting. Pray to Artemis, goddess of the hunt, for her huntswoman’s quadriceps and her archer’s orbed arms. You’ll be happy to have them when gravity, ruthless gravity, starts fingering your merchandise and toying with your heart. What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they’re not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence. Your muscle can be sanctimonious, it’s true, adhering to a materialist, puritanical, goal-oriented mentality, but at least they are reliable. You can spend every day on a therapist’s couch and still wake up to your old frail spirit, but if you work out every day your muscles will grow strong. I’ve noticed in nearly every gym where I’ve worked out that women on the weight-training equipment use far too low a setting for their strength, particularly when they are exercising their upper body, where they are convinced they are weak. They’ll stick with twenty or thirty pounds’ that they could handle twice what they’re pressing, but they’re not doing it, and nobody’s telling them to do it, and I want to go over and beg them to use a higher weight and tell them, Look, you’re blowing it, here’s your chance, your cheap and easy chance, to own a piece of your life and strut and be a comic-strip heroine, so please, stack it up, heave-ho, do it for yourself, your daughter, your mother, the International Maidenhood of Iron. In the real world of the two-career family, most women will breastfeed for the first few weeks or months of their baby’s life, and then they will supplement or replace breast milk with formula. Like women throughout history, they will do the best they can under the constraints of work, duty, and desire. They will be generous and selfish, mammals and magicians, and they will flow and stop flowing. Whatever they do, they will feel guilty for not doing enough, … (  ) Clueless | Jan 26, 2008 | Everything you ever wanted (or didn't want) to know about women's biology. Pulitzer prize-winning Angier creates a "fantasia of the female body" that is witty, rabble-rousing, and unafraid to tackle any "down there" taboo. This book is not about competitive comparisons between men and women. Rather, it is a woman's tribute filled with science, history, anthropology, and even a little poetry. A beautiful and stimulating read for anyone. (  ) anru | Jan 11, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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The mysteries of evolution are not a new subject for Angier, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biology writer for the New York Times whose previous books include The Beauty of the Beastly and Natural Obsessions. The strengths of Woman begin with Angier's witty and evocative prose style, but its real contribution is the way it expands the definition of female "geography" beyond womb, breasts, and estrogen, down as far as the bimolecular substructure of DNA and up as high as the transcendent infrastructure of the human brain. --Patrizia DiLucchio
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