Delusions of Gender: The Science Behind the Real Differences Between the Sexes

Cordelia Fine

ISBN 10: 1848312016 / ISBN 13: 9781848312012

Published by Icon Books, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Delusions of Gender: The Science Behind the Real Differences Between the Sexes
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848312016
• ISBN 13: 9781848312012
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it's our brains.

Drawing on the latest research in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social psychology, Delusions of Gender rebuts these claims, showing how old myths, dressed up in new scientific finery, help perpetuate the status quo.

Cordelia Fine reveals the mind's remarkable plasticity, shows the substantial influence of culture on identity, and, ultimately, exposes just how much of what we consider 'hardwired' is actually malleable. This startling, original and witty book shows the surprising extent to which boys and girls, men and women are made, not born.

About the Author

Cordelia Fine is a Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of much-acclaimed A Mind of Its Own (Icon, 2006) and Testosterone Rex (Icon, 2017).