“Bordo's discussion of the differences between men and women in general is one of the best I have read anywhere . . . I am grateful for this book. Bordo's talent for reading culture presents us with the most valuable gift: a newly configured imagination.” —Susan Griffin, The Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Remarkable, and not just because it is by a female scholar who has been through the gender wars. It is very tough. It is also very tender . . . Provocative, unexpected and winning.” —Richard Eder, The New York Times

“A prodigiously researched tour through movies, TV, art, advertising, fashion, celebrity culture, pop psychology, social science, literature, medicine, and more . . . a readable treatment of what has sometimes become as academic and abstrusely theoretical object of study.” —Laura Kipnis, The Village Voice Literary Supplement

“An unqualified pleasure: thoughtful, funny, unusually engaging, with moments of almost novelistic poignancy.” —Louis Bayard, The Washington Post Book Review