The Disposable Male: Sex, Love, and Money: Your World through Darwin's Eyes

by Michael Gilbert

In The Disposable Male , Michael Gilbert takes on the important questions in life—who we fall in love with and why, how we feel about sex, marriage, family and career—exposing the deep and fundamental underlying forces that continue to shape the pivotal issues of vital concern to us all. The early chapters frame an evolutionary perspective for readers with an entertaining, informative, and original look at how we humans got here while later chapters deploy this unique and powerful lens in a searching examination of our modern, high-tech world. Bold, irreverent, funny and thought-provoking, The Disposable Male will provide readers with fresh and penetrating insights and valuable tips for dealing with the issues that matter so much in our hectic contemporary lives. It will have you looking at your world in new and exciting ways.

Genres: Science, Gender

307 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2006

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Reviews

[Titan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have yet to read a more dishonest review of a book as the one presented by Aurochz. Quite contrary to the reviewer's blindness of facts and arguments due to extreme bias, the author provides ample well cited references. The author never makes any assumptions or baseless conclusions, but rather presents anthropological facts, evolutionary development and history to highlight the specializations imposed by nature on human sexes just as most other mammals.

It's evident to any critical reader that the reviewer is ranting and is simply at the denial stage, a long way from accepting the grief brought on modern society by the fallacies adopted by the second wave movement and onwards. It should be noted that the book's author is markedly a supporter of the first wave movement.

If there are any conclusions the author draws is to recognize female as well-grounded and a force of balance and harmony in nature, while male, being genetically predisposed as such, to be a force of chaos and change. But in the ongoing evolution business change is the only way to get to the next level! This book may have done more to sensibly reinforce the importance and beauty of the feminine than any other work on gender.

[LumberJack · Rating 5 out of 5]

I consider this book even better than my favourite book The Rational Male. The Disposable Male may be my first legitimate evolutionary psychology book but it was great. Having examples of double standards, first second and third wave feminism, where are we headed as a species, and just a history of the disposable male in war and whole model of it and how it’s changed. If you’re going into something evolutionary psychology, then this a great book to start. I’ve already put this on my wish list in Amazon when to make my next book purchase. Simply. Amazing.

[Alex Robinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Provocative if depressing look at changing gender roles and how they fit into our genetic history and evolution.

[Rakan · Rating 4 out of 5]

المراجعة جاية في الطريق

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Changed my life