| Author(s) | Louann Brizendine |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Morgan Road Books |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 187, 210 including notes. |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7679-2009-0 |
| OCLC Number | 63660885 |
| Dewey Decimal | 612.8 22 |
| LC Classification | QP376 .B755 2006 |
The Female Brain is a book by Louann Brizendine, whose main thesis is that women’s behavior is different from that of men due to hormonal differences. Brizendine says that the human female brain is affected by the following hormones: estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, (oxytocin), neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin), and difference in architecture of the brain (prefrontal cortex, hypothalamus, amygdala) that regulates such hormones and neurotransmitters.
Brizendine's book includes seven chapters. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific part of a woman’s life such as puberty, motherhood, and menopause or a specific dimension of a women’s emotional life such as feelings, love & trust, and sex. The book also includes three appendices on hormone therapy, postpartum depression, and sexual orientation.
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Some of the authors that supported the content of the book include:
Some of the authors that criticized the content of the book include:
Academic feminists have given mixed reviews to The Female Brain. Brizendine was given the tongue-in-cheek 2006 Becky Award, which is given to "people or organizations who have made outstanding contributions to linguistic misinformation."[4] The award cited errors in The Female Brain, including one sentence (removed in future printings) which contrasted the number of words used by men and women in one day. The numbers had been taken from a book by a self-help guru and were incorrect.[5] The phonetician Mark Liberman has formulated an extensive criticism of Brizendine's approach in a series of blog comments, starting with,[6] and continuing with a long series of blog articles listed here.[7]