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How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
W. W. Norton
September 2010
On Sale: August 30, 2010
338 pages
ISBN: 0393068382
EAN: 9780393068382
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A brilliantly researched and wickedly funny rebuttal of the
pseudo-scientific claim that men are from Mars and women are
from Venus. 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 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. Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, Delusions of
Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the
belief that men’s and women’s brains are intrinsically
different—a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and
humor, all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and
our society.
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