Author

Publication

2010 - W. W. Norton, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

84,500 words, Guess

Page Count

338 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC612.8/2
  • LCCQP360 .F52 2010

Description

Subtitle: How our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, the author criticizes claims about innate biological differences between men and women's minds as being faulty and exaggerated and considers how cultural and societal beliefs contribute to sex differences. Cornelia Fine is an academic psychologist.

Description

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 such claims as men's brains aren't wired for empathy and women's brains aren't made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men's and women's behavior. Instead of a "male brain" and a "female brain," Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender.--From publisher description.

First Sentence

Meet Evan.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Delusions of gender: how our minds, society, and neurosexism create differencehardcoverW. W. Norton2010-01-01

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