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Hooven discusses the role of testosterone in distinguishing male and female behavior, and specifically its effect on male behavior in this book. The first few chapters are very informative and I learnt a lot about how hormones contribute to animal (and human) development and behavior, and the history of endocrinology as a whole. The last four chapters, which I think dealt mainly with testosterone in humans/role of testosterone in human behavior, felt a little more drawn out than the first and I struggled to complete them.
I enjoyed learning all of the new information this book offered me, especially the kind where further reading was readily available from a simple google search (male sopranos, eunuchs, differences in sex development etc.) As an e-book reader, I would have benefited from in-text citations. There were a number of cases where I would have very much liked to refer to data/sources without having to scroll through pages of the notes section on my kindle.
Although very informative, I simply wasn't convinced of some of the points being asserted and in a few cases the citations that were presented at the end of the text were outdated. While the author attributes several differences between men and women to testosterone, she acknowledges that the behavioral effect of hormones specifically of testosterone, in women is understudied,
Lastly, I cringed several times reading this book ("So what is the right response to the male propensity for sexual assault and other problematic male behaviors? Let's not forget that men themselves don't get off easy, since hey are the primary victims of male violence. Women are not the only victims here.)" Unsettling quotes such as these dragged on the reading of this book and detracted from the information presented in this book for me.
I enjoyed learning all of the new information this book offered me, especially the kind where further reading was readily available from a simple google search (male sopranos, eunuchs, differences in sex development etc.) As an e-book reader, I would have benefited from in-text citations. There were a number of cases where I would have very much liked to refer to data/sources without having to scroll through pages of the notes section on my kindle.
Although very informative, I simply wasn't convinced of some of the points being asserted and in a few cases the citations that were presented at the end of the text were outdated. While the author attributes several differences between men and women to testosterone, she acknowledges that the behavioral effect of hormones specifically of testosterone, in women is understudied,
Lastly, I cringed several times reading this book ("So what is the right response to the male propensity for sexual assault and other problematic male behaviors? Let's not forget that men themselves don't get off easy, since hey are the primary victims of male violence. Women are not the only victims here.)" Unsettling quotes such as these dragged on the reading of this book and detracted from the information presented in this book for me.