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Delusions Of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences - Community Reviews back

by Cordelia Fine
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Merle
Merle rated it 9 years ago
We’ve all encountered those pop science books, the ones that claim “hardwired” differences between male and female minds. Cordelia Fine has seen them too, but instead of simply accepting their assertions because they sound scientific, she delved into the research, tracking down the studies that purp...
shell pebble
shell pebble rated it 11 years ago
I really think all educators need to read this book. Fine's target is the new gender essentialism, the reconstructed sexism that attempts to put women back in their traditional roles as 'unbenders of husbands' brows' and caregivers to children, and to keep them out of politics, mathematics and the s...
A little tea, a little chat
A little tea, a little chat rated it 11 years ago
18 Sept Update: some stories reading Karen's review brought to mind from my childhood....http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/more-on-delusions-of-gender-by-cordelia-fine/-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Message on my secret diary...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 12 years ago
This is a remarkably good book, and anyone who's remotely interested in claims that there might be inherent differences in mental function between men and women should read it. It's insightful, carefully researched, well-written and often very funny. And if it doesn't make you change your mind about...
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it 12 years ago
This book looks at some of the popular assumptions about hardwired gender norms and asks some timely and serious questions about them. She shows that by presenting tasks as being gender biased that it can skew the results. That western culture encourages a very rigid adherence to gender norms, tha...
sitiwajihah
sitiwajihah rated it 12 years ago
I'll add this later because there's this quote from the epilogue that I love and I wanna put here.
A Book Every Other Day
A Book Every Other Day rated it 12 years ago
Amazing, amusing and enlightening.
Bun's Books
Bun's Books rated it 12 years ago
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...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 13 years ago
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...
afeministreviews
afeministreviews rated it 13 years ago
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...
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