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Title: Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
Author: FINE CORDELIA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/04/2011
Imprint: ICON
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it’s our brains. Drawing on the latest research in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social psychology, Delusions of Gender rebuts these claims, showing how old myths, dressed up in new scientific finery, help perpetuate the status quo. Cordelia Fine reveals the mind’s remarkable plasticity, shows the substantial influence of culture on identity, and, ultimately, exposes just how much of what we consider ‘hardwired’ is actually malleable. This startling, original and witty book shows the surprising extent to which boys and girls, men and women are made, not born. ‘Timely and provocative…includes extensive research, sharp wit and a probing intelligence, and…refuses to be satisfied with the delusional myth-making that often passes for popular science.’ Metro ‘With Delusions of Gender, we welcome a brilliant feminist critic of the neurosciences…In a book that sparkles with wit, which is easy to read but underpinned by substantial scholarship …[Cordelia Fine] attacks the ready generalisations on sexual differences made by neuroscientists and their media exegetes.’ Hilary Rose, Times Higher Education Supplement With a fabulous combination of wit, passion and scholarship, Fine demolishes many of the common theories offered to explain the construction of gender in contemporary society…this marvellous and important book will change the way readers view the gendered world’ Publishers Weekly (US)
ISBN: 9781848312203
Dimension: 198mm X 1298mm
Pages: 368