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Testosterone Rex

Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds

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Testosterone Rex

By: Cordelia Fine
Narrated by: Willow Nash
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Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rewarded competitive men and caring women, these differences are supposedly recreated in each generation by sex hormones and male and female brains. Testosterone, so we're told, is the very essence of masculinity, and biological sex is a fundamental force in our development.

Not so, says psychologist Cordelia Fine, who shows, with wit and panache, that sex doesn't create male and female natures. Instead, sex, hormones, culture and evolution work together in ways that make past and present gender dynamics only a serving suggestion for the future - not a recipe.

Testosterone Rex brings together evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience and social history to move beyond old 'nature versus nurture' debates, and to explain why it's time to unmake the tyrannical myth of Testosterone Rex.

©2017 Cordelia Fine (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Biological Sciences Gender Studies Science Social Sciences Discrimination Equality Human Brain
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Good content but as someone else mentioned the narration is monotonous. I find that playing with the playback speed really helps with slow robotic voices. Give it a try next time you find a voice you don't like. 1.4x was perfect for this book.

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Testosterone Rex presents a biased view, oversimplifying gender differences and selectively misrepresenting genetic data, prioritizing social cohesion over scientific accuracy.

a book of strawmen

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