Delusions of Gender

In the twenty-first century, many people still assume that boys and girls are naturally different, even though most women remain below the glass ceiling despite its cracks. Magazines and newspapers regularly present differences between male and female brains as hardwired and decisive, and this book questions that story.

Cordelia Fine examines how neuroscience is reported in magazines, newspapers and books, and how that reporting can feed existing assumptions. She sets out the role of society and of what she calls neurosexism in shaping what people take to be innate. Students of psychology, gender studies and sociology, and general readers curious about the science, will find the argument accessible.

Published by MixIG. ISBN-13: 9780393340242.