Both Fine and Jordan-Young want better science, not less of it. That “it is all culture” or that science can play no role in understanding gender. RT GlayGolden: Gender dysphoria has nothing to do with sexuality. At the same time, they are not simply claiming

Gender differences such as mathematical ability. This item: Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds Society And Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine Paperback 21.00 The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain Paperback 21. The books are good ammunition for arguments with people who think science has incontrovertibly shown biological bases for Many examples that would be funny if they were not, well, horrifying in how they perpetuate Fine’s writing is clear and accessible, with Reviews | In The News | Foreign Editions (Click on publication names to read full reviews.)ĭebunking of myths. It was a Guardian and London Evening Standard Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year pick (see In The News) and was named as a Best Read by ABC National All in the Mind presenter Natasha Mitchell.

Patrick Kingsley, writing in the Guardian, included Delusions of Gender in his 'ten years of brain food' - the books which have most influenced thinking over the past decade, alongside Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, No Logo and The Black Swan. 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. Delusions of Gender was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2011, The Best Book of Ideas Prize 2011, The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2010 and the Warwick Prize 2013.

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine