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  • Delusions of Gender

  • The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
  • By: Cordelia Fine
  • Narrated by: Jaimi Barbakoff
  • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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By: Cordelia Fine
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The brilliant and hugely influential book by the winner of the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Books Prize.

Gender inequalities are increasingly defended by citing hard-wired differences between the male and female brain. That’s why, we’re told, there are so few women in science, so few men in the laundry room - different brains are just suited to different things. 

With sparkling wit and humour, Cordelia Fine attacks this ‘neurosexism’, revealing the mind’s remarkable plasticity, the substantial influence of culture on identity and the malleability of what we consider to be ‘hardwired’ difference. 

This modern classic shows the surprising extent to which boys and girls, men and women are made - not born.
©2011 Cordelia Fine (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd
Gender Studies Biological Sciences Physics
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Critic Reviews

“Fun, droll yet deeply serious.” (New Scientist)

“A brilliant feminist critic of the neurosciences. Read her, enjoy and learn.” (Hilary Rose, Thes) 

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  • 16-02-2023

When academics prioritise activism…

If you’re looking for a book that “steel-mans” the nurture side of the nature/nurture debate with regards to sex differences like I was, this isn’t it. Only made it 2 hours in and couldn’t do it anymore. Consistent biased interpretation from a cherry picked list of contentious studies. She set out with a point to prove and didn’t care what she had to do to get there. Not good

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