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Author Fine, Cordelia.

Title Delusions of gender : how our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference / Cordelia Fine.

Imprint New York : W. W. Norton, c2010.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  612.82 F493d 2010    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxix, 338 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary 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.
Contents "Half-changed world," half-changed minds -- Neurosexism -- Recycling gender.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-327) and index.
Subject Brain -- Sex differences.
Sex differences (Psychology)
Brain -- physiology.
Neuropsychology.
Sex Factors.
ISBN 9780393068382 (hardcover)
0393068382 (hardcover)
9780393340242 (pbk.)
0393340244 (pbk.)

 
    
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