I love this book. It carefully and cogently, with references and specifics, explains how much of what popular culture says about the "science" of gender differences is no such thing. Rather its sloppy and innacurate popularizations of studies, some incorrectly reported and some actually sloppy and...
Let me boil the book down for the busy reader: whenever someone* chooses to ignore all the documented evidence of discrimination in favor of just-so stories about biology, in order to keep right on discriminating, you can take their evidence as having all the validity of the presenter's good intenti...
I adored this book. It will be immensely useful both online and in person in discussions over gender, especially when someone brings "science" into the discussion. Far from just being theory, Fine brings in a multitude of studies that back up her assertions, which more or less boil down to what we a...
I found it an interesting read, how we can't assume that what we're thinking on the surface permiates and how unthinking biases can cause long-term repercussions which have fueled sexism and racism and probably a lot of other isms too. A bit of a pop-culture quick look, but well cited and a springbo...
Nearly 20 years ago I studied sociology at a feminist, Marxist university. I’m pretty much disposed to accept the argument that culture heavily influences behaviour, i.e. I’m on the nurture side of the nature versus nurture debate. So I thought reading “Delusions of Gender” would simply be a matter ...
Excellent, witty, damning assessment of the ostensible neurological foundations for gender differences. Fine's text is stuffed with not just critiques of how popularized science is often bowdlerized science -- she also tangles with the pervasively flawed construction of experiments (or off-based in...
The more I read, the more amazed I am by what we don’t know and how heavily it is used to prescribe who we should be.Fine's often sarcastic style is probably going to be off putting for anyone already included to disagree with her, but I found it to be engaging and refreshing. Everyone should give i...
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