This is a fresh and fascinating look at why any particular couple conceives a boy or a girl. It holds that this is not simply a random biological function, but that the father's psychological temperament at the time of conception -- the 'twinkle in the father's eye' -- is the essential determining factor. The theory is simple to grasp, and amusing to test on parents you know. More deeply, it aims to explain the dynamics of gender, and makes a case for the importance of men and fatherhood. It directly answers the feminist challenge: What are men for? Thus it is an important contribution to the recent tradition of works that explore the male perspective.
ISBN: 1-84045-009-6
Contents
Preface
The Twinkle Theory Proclaimed
Nature's Reasons
The Temperament that Makes Girls
The Temperament that Makes Boys
All Men Can Have Both
Bettering your Chances
Sex and the Twinkle Theory
Evidence, Such As It Is
A Rigorous Analysis
What Men Are For
"Mr Gettman has successfully explained a phenomenon that no one else has been able to explain. Now that we know what men are for -- men, too, can learn to stop behaving predominately from biological urges. I have decided, after reading The Twinkle Theory, to stop indecisively perusing the brochure for the Ninth Annual Chicago Humanities Festival whose theme this year is gender. I don't agree now that society has a 'gender problem'."
eebernard@hotmail.com
"I'm very impressed with what the author has done in developing The Twinkle Theory. I envision the author sitting as a guest on Oprah Winfrey sometime soon."
MMarx41258@aol.com
"I made a print-out of The Twinkle Theory a week ago, and could not put it down once I had started reading it. It is most stimulating."
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