Reviews for The Natural Superiority of Women

The average rating for The Natural Superiority of Women based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-05-24 00:00:00 Jay Bird So I was totally skeptical of this book. I mean the title is pretty in your face and the one I read (which my awesome husband bought me, I think partly as a joke) was super dated (it’s the second edition, so was published in 1953) but I LOVED it! It was really, really interesting and doesn’t argue that women don’t need men or anything extremely radical like that, in fact, it argues against women trying to be like men and notes that the greatest achievement and most creative endeavor is to bear and raise children, the first of which only women can do. It spent a lot of time dispelling common myths regarding feminine and masculine traits/characteristics and if you have ever wondered about differences between the sexes this book is for you. If you’re still not convinced, he starts the book by noting that the truly superior person doesn’t feel the need to lord it over anyone but that this is something only inferior people do in order to feel superior (see page 10). And although it may come off as cheesy and idealistic at the end he says: “The best way of remaking the world is not by changing the world but by changing the people who make the world the kind of place it is, by making human beings out of people” (page 189-190) and how women have constantly been involved in this task. If you've ever suffered from an inferiority complex and are a woman READ THIS BOOK!

Review # 2 was written on 2009-03-07 00:00:00 William De Loge Ashley Montague was a giant in his field. As a teacher, he discovered he could not teach in class what he teaches in this book. Both male and female students would not hear him. The females were made uncomfortable. The males were made angry and derisive. So he wrote the book. It's common knowledge among biologists that mammals are all female, becoming male by some sort of imperative as they develop in the womb. Males are an adaptation of the female. It ought to be common knowledge by simple observation. Why do males have nipples? Cats, dogs, pigs, choose your mammal. It's so obvious it's laughable. Montague argues that the female body is superior to the male's. He does NOT argue that that the female is superior to the male. In class, this went unheard. In the 1950s it became very apparent that Montague was right since there were females being trained for the space program at the same time males were. No publicity was given to the women for the obvious reasons. In every test, a woman's body proved superior to a male's for the task of space travel. Look it up. It's true. Montague's book is a classic, or should be. It's even-handed, sensible, honest and fair, even bending over backward so that males will not become defensive. Ashley was a male and he knew what he was talking about.