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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference - Community Reviews back

by Cordelia Fine
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Jenny Schwartz
Jenny Schwartz rated it 13 years ago
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 ...
Another fine mess
Another fine mess rated it 13 years ago
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...
Literary Ames
Literary Ames rated it 13 years ago
UK Kindle Spring Sale 2012 (prices may also be low on the same books in the US store)
Saturdays in Books
Saturdays in Books rated it 14 years ago
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...
Oliviate
Oliviate rated it 14 years ago
Gender is the soup, and we are the flies.
catpdx
catpdx rated it 14 years ago
Fascinating stuff.
Amadan na Briona
Amadan na Briona rated it 14 years ago
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 ...
Reflections
Reflections rated it 14 years ago
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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