What Every Woman Should Know About Men

by Joyce Brothers

By Joyce Brothers, America's #1 counselor shatters myths and tells it all!

Genres: Nonfiction

280 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 12, 1983

About the author

Joyce Brothers was a psychologist well known for her TV appearances. She also wrote a daily advice column in newspapers from 1960 to 2013.

Reviews

[Laura L · Rating 2 out of 5]

Obviously with this book being published in 1981, some of the information is a bit dated. It was interesting, but I knocked off a star because of the section toward the end about affairs. It says if your husband cheats on you, you should just deal with it then act like it didn't happen. Then it also says that if a woman cheats, she shouldn't let her husband know because of more severe consequences.

[Rafa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book written in 1981, but surprisingly interesting. There were only a few pages where it felt antiquated (for ex. on birth control). The problems between men and women addressed in refreshing ways and providing cool solutions, too. There were a few questionable points, though. As perceptive and intelligent as her analysis was, I feel the author sped by perhaps the most important question of all: why, DO women put up with men’s reckless, childish and self-centred behaviour, as she well described? This went unanswered and was a shame, for it could have elevated the book to a whole new level. Am glad I came across it in my grandmother’s library, though.

[D Steven Ledingham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazingly perceptive, especially considering when it was written. Highly recommended.

[jules · Rating 1 out of 5]

so if you’re a wife and your husband cheats, then you have to put up with it given that it’s inevitable since men are “genetically hard-wired” to not withstand monogamy, but also if you cheat as a wife, you should hate yourself and accept any physical punishment your husband inflicts upon you, oh and also there’s a link between impotence and intelligence, and don’t blame your husband for having a madonna-whore complex and not being able to be sexually attracted to you as a wife

[Kassie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was well with Dr Brothers RIGHT up until she treated infidelity like something that should just be shrugged off by a woman in the last chapter. And to "cry your eyes out. But in private." Holy hell! How archaic can you get?

[Ilena Holder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ladies read this book! It is everything you need to take control of your life! Should be required reading for every teen girl!

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even with the old data the truth in this book hurts. Some professor should update it and write a foreward, but all her advice should be left.

[Alice Lindell · Rating 3 out of 5]

The original Cosmopolitan article. If you're not a middle-class, US citizen this isn't relevant.

[Fernanda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informativo, interesante , útil. No me pareció un libro de autoayuda, me pareció un libro lleno de información interesante (aunque considero más divertido e informativo el bueno 'los caballeros las prefieren brutas') para compartir. Es uno de esos libros que cualquier mujer debería leer pues a pesar de tener ya sus años , sigue bastante vigente.

Todo explicado fácilmente, de manera concisa. No es algo absolutamente fabuloso, pero si útil.

[Henrika · Rating 1 out of 5]

The most horrifying book I've ever read.

[Farukh Javed]

NICE BOOK