Understanding Guys: A Guide for Teenage Girls

by Michael Gurian

Book Overview

Discusses the emotional, mental, and social differences between males and females. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843174757
• ISBN13: 9780843174755
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

This book is not just for kids...

As an adult woman, married for 16 years, I found that this book explained 98% of the arguments I have had with my husband. The author has excellent insights about the differences between males and females--such as those caused by hormones and brain structure. (He is careful to say that not all males or females align to the characteristics he describes.) The author travels into territory that will be controversial, but I think he is right on. For example, while he makes it clear that no one should ever be violent, he is one of the few authors to talk about the role females play in date and domestic violence--even if they don't hit. (And he notes that females often do slap their partners). Three quarters of the way through the book I was ready to hand it out on street corners, because if read and understood it could help to prevent so much of the pain and violence couples experience. However, at the end of the book, he suggests sexual practices for those protecting their virginity. While I absolutely concur with the author that we need to "get real" about how kids will act on their sexuality, I expect this will keep me from using the book in the schools (unless those pages are removed). I do intend to have all my friends with girls or husbands read this book.