Buy new:
$29.99
Delivery Monday, October 28
Ships from: Amazon
Sold by: shinystars
$29.99
FREE International Returns
No Import Fees Deposit & $13.59 Shipping to Austria Details

Shipping & Fee Details

Price $29.99
AmazonGlobal Shipping $13.59
Estimated Import Fees Deposit $0.00
Total $43.58

Delivery Monday, October 28
Or fastest delivery Wednesday, October 16. Order within 6 hrs 21 mins
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
$$29.99 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$29.99
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon
Ships from
Amazon
Sold by
shinystars
Sold by
shinystars
Returns
30-day refund/replacement
30-day refund/replacement
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Returns
30-day refund/replacement
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
$7.19
May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less See less
$11.91 delivery November 6 - 29. Details
In stock
$$29.99 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$29.99
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Ships from and sold by ThriftBooks-Seattle.
Added to

Sorry, there was a problem.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again.

Sorry, there was a problem.

List unavailable.
Other sellers on Amazon
New & Used (12) from   $6.05
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Follow the author

Anne Moir
Follow
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Why Men Don't Iron: The Fascinating and Unalterable Differences Between Men and Women Hardcover – October 1, 2000

by Anne Moir (Author), Bill Moir (Author)
4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
See all formats and editions
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$29.99","priceAmount":29.99,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"29","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"99","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"RGZGh2s1HWAi7WAlDGue9k7wlPZgoWgtdxSAMwSnG%2Bv11L%2BOMKEPf9ZKIu2s4ij9OQh1p5STqmFmxxGdcE0d1tq%2Fzzdq%2Fq92xLMo%2BkK3wgYfY6nF5%2F2p41PGqd0syhXW1pn5vX80oIz2jTnGjFMZzJbBc%2Fw%2Bf%2FFZAkl%2F6n%2F0sf1Dm90TccMZZGD%2Brvv4TGs1","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$7.19","priceAmount":7.19,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"7","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"19","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"RGZGh2s1HWAi7WAlDGue9k7wlPZgoWgt17lpCtwXuZM6tpgSvfcVAO4jRyt7ROahmSXpDsjEa%2FICocyn7QNCWJvVnufGghCly5XWeGWlQYiIVkgyaYDO8RXLrsp7mNX8cYPeMrspy5DUFSc1SgrR6chk00nu192XPproo21%2FnsX9CW8rky%2BXyQ%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

Arguing that fundamental gender attitudes are hard-wired into the brain rather than culturally conditioned, a radical reinterpretation of gender "science" offers physiological explanations for differences in weight loss, mathematical acuity, learning strategies, sex drive, and communications skills, among other fascinating issues in the Mars/Venus debate.
Previous slide of product details
  1. Print length
    320 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Birch Lane Pr
  4. Publication date
    October 1, 2000
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.25 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1559725214
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1559725217
  8. See all details
Next slide of product details

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Birch Lane Pr (October 1, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1559725214
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1559725217
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.
Anne Moir

Anne Moir

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read book recommendations and more.

Customer reviews

4 out of 5 stars
20 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Wes
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book on Sex Differences
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2010
Verified Purchase
This book along with Brain Sex are two of the most seminal books written on the subject of sex differences. I have studied this subject extenstively for my own planned book My book will attack the media for its feminist bias. Unlike most critiques, mine begins with theory. That theory is the best theory at hand outside physics, namely, evolutionary theory. As a social scientist (Ph.D.), I found the psychosocial sciences plagued with dozens of "perspectives" masquarading as theories. Only Neo-Darwinian theory stipulates up from the evidence that would disprove the theory. It has yet to be disproved, despite the fact that explains the why of virtually all human behavior. Now, Moir is not an evolutionary scientist. But the vast research that underlies her books and the evidence she lays out, agree right down the line with evolutionary theory. Her first book, Brain Sex, is more sweeping in coverage. Why Men Don't Iron zeroes in on a few important areas: the exact differences in male and female brains and endocrine systems that make them different. Her research and findings agree with Steven Pinker (How The Mind Works, The Language Instinct, and others), Donald Symons (Human Sexuality), Steven E. Rhoads, David Buss (The Evolution of Desire, and many others), Geoffrey Miller (The Mating Mind), Robert Wright (The Moral Animal), Doreen Kimura (Sex and Cognition), Nancy Etcoff (Survival of the Prettiest), Steven Goldberg (Why Men Rule), and dozens of other scientists. Moreover, it agrees with what we know about humans before history and after--until the advent of modern feminism. And most importantly, it agrees with common sense. Moir's first book, Brain Sex, led to a five hour TV documentary in which scientists of all persuasions expressed their views, but clearly the evidence overwelmingly supported Moir's thesis: boys and girls have radically and unalterably differnt brains and endocrine systems. Even feminist writers like Deborah Blum and Bobbie Low agree with Moir's ideas. They depart from her views in hoping that the brain is malliable enough that the media and schools can brainwash girls into at least behaving like boys and brainwash boys into at least acting like girls. Blum tried and failed with her own children, but hopes that over a few generations, change is possible. Now Moir is a scientist but she is also a woman. With a woman's sensitivities, she believes that working woman and working man can coexist with marriage. I do not. Once women, like chimps, have the wherewithall to support themselves and the opportunity to cheat, marriage ends and "love" begins. That is one reason the feminist media is hyping love these days. Despite her semi-feminist stance, she is bound to be attacked by feminists and (naturally) sociologists. Edward O. Wilson, the man who started the it all with his book Sociobiology, in which he sneered at the silly perspectives sociologists called theory and argued that biology had a theory that that withstood thousands of attempts to disconform it and that could be applied to social phenomena. He was assaulted verbally by sociologists and physically by feminists. Many male authors of books that take an evolutionary approach to male-female differences, seem to have found that to get published or avoid assault they have to include as much as a chapter apologizing to feminists for their work. For example, Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer wrote A Natural History of RAPE in which they argued that rape is an genuine adaptation. They included a full chapter pleading with women to forgive them for their stand and hastily informing them how they could change men. Undoubtedly, the best book ever written on family violence was Physical Violence in American Families by Murray A. Strauss and Richard J. Gelles. They claim they received threats of physical violence from feminists because they found that wives are just as likely as husbands to start a fight but wind up getting the worst of the fight they started. The American media relendlessly continues its effort to effect unisex. I think even as a scientist I can say this is madness. Who would want to live in such a Brave New World? Moreover, as Pinker pointed out, a world in which humans are social products is a world where the battle becomes one of brainwashing and reconditioning. It already is. And the battle has spilled over into science so that today, 2010, one cannot even believe findings of "science." The feminization of Britain lagged that of the U.S., allowing for voices like Anne Moir's. But feministideology, based in commercialism (ever wonder why Republicans gave women the vote and, albeit unwittingly, insinuated them into the Civil Rights Act of 1963?), that drives the U.S. media is a cancer that is spreading around the globe. Orwell's 1984 is here, has been, only instead of saying "freedom is slavery, slavery is freedom," the voice is saying "men are women, women are men." Its midnight and I'm going to retire. I apologize to Moir for not writing this in 1999 when I purchased her book from Amazon, read it, and realized that everything I believed up until then was a lie. Like the "fat epidemic" today, huh?
12 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
master craftsman
5.0 out of 5 stars It never too late to hear science explain truth
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2015
Verified Purchase
You should read her first book "Brain Sex" first. I've realized I was deluded by the feminist and gay wishful notions swirling around my S.F. area for the last 50 years. Her scientist friends told her not to write "Brain Sex" because he science career would suffer from political forces, fortunately she ignored them and her well researched and peer supported books exist. So you too can also liberate yourself from wishful thinking.

Judging by Anne's career, she could be the poster child for the Feminist movement. Her stumbling block is their fanciful agenda. She has a Phd in genetics, a neuropsychology degree, therapist training, she wrote and produced science shows for the BBC, teaches at Oxford, she's on the internet so you can look her up.
6 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Mike Hamilton
5.0 out of 5 stars Why Men are smarter than Women.
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2011
Verified Purchase
This book is a must read for women. Although men admit they do not understand women, women firmly believe they understand men but they don't have a clue. Intelligence isn't just what you know but also knowing what you don't know which makes men smarter than women. So Ladies, read and be informed. You will find it enlightening and amusing. Men will find it interesting as well. A good couple book but much more important for young single women. Mike
4 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Amazon junkie
5.0 out of 5 stars My wife loves it.
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2022
Verified Purchase
More couples need this book. It will clear up a lot of things.
Helpful
 Report
Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book about men and how they differ from women and lots of great info.
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2015
Verified Purchase
Great book! Loved all the statistical data and studies about how men and women differ. Was recommended by a speaker I heard from the UK. Good book to underline and keep bookmarks in. Men need to read it. Good tips on diet and what we are meant to eat. Will recommend this book to other men I know including my family.
2 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
H. Buchanan
2.0 out of 5 stars If Rush Limbaugh were to write a book about gender differences....
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2005
It's actually too bad. There was some useful information in this book. But the political statements just got to be too much after a while. I lost track of the number of times "radical feminist" was used.

It's less a book about gender differences, and more a book about understanding men and how modern society is ruining boys and men. Those pesky "radical feminists" are the ones to blame.

If you want a less biased view of gender differences, try "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps" by Barbara and Allan Pease.
8 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
RBB
4.0 out of 5 stars Great information, irritating style
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2002
Verified Purchase
I don't know what the editor(s) of this book were thinking in terms of the silly way sections end, and certain blanket assertions/assumptions the authors make about society; however, the basic information and research presented are fascinating and important. I wish I felt better about saying everyone should read this thought-provoking book. It would make the world a more humane place for both men and women if more people understood the points this book makes.
12 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Dr. D. Watkins
5.0 out of 5 stars I Re-read It and So Will You...
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2018
Overlook the dorky title-- it's irrelevant-- this is actually a well researched (lots of citations) about the inherent, biological differences in both brain and behaviour between males and females. I was highly resistant to their arguments (and still assert that men and women are much more similar than dissimilar) but the authors are highly persuasive, employ several clever turns of phrase, heaps of annotations (of course, evidence changes as time marches on) and that's why I read it, annotated, it, reviewed it, studied it, and retained it.
So will you.
Very readable. Highly recommended.
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report