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...
This is not what I'd call a "popular science" book -- it's aimed at an intellectual audience with some understanding of science and a willingness to deal with academic language. That makes it less accessible than a lot of the talk show-fodder books it's debunking, like all those ridiculous "Why Men ...
Just when it looked like neuroscience was justifying our current worldview that innate differences are somehow “hardwired” into the brains of little boys and little girls author Cordelia Fine comes along and checks out the scientific studies. What she exposes and describes in detail are poorly desig...
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