Delusions of gender: the real science behind sex differences

✍ Scribed by Cordelia Fine

• Book ID: 100092555
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company;Icon
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 214 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1848313969

✦ Synopsis

"[Fine's] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is."--The New York Times It's the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks--we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. And everywhere we hear about vitally important "hardwired" differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and sometimes even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo. Women, it seems, are just too intuitive for math; men too focused for housework.

Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men's and women's brains, unraveling the evidence behind...