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Cordelia Fine - Delusions of Gender, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Delusions of Gender

The Real Science Behind Sex Differences

Av Cordelia Fine

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Beskrivning
THE BRILLIANT AND HUGELY INFLUENTIAL BOOK BY THE WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOKS PRIZE'Fun, droll yet deeply serious.' New Scientist'A brilliant feminist critic of the neurosciences ... Read her, enjoy and learn.' Hilary Rose, THES'A witty and meticulously researched exposé of the sloppy studies that pass for scientific evidence in so many of today's bestselling books on sex differences.' Carol Tavris, TLSGender inequalities are increasingly defended by citing hard-wired differences between the male and female brain. That's why, we're told, there are so few women in science, so few men in the laundry room - different brains are just suited to different things.With sparkling wit and humour, Cordelia Fine attacks this 'neurosexism', revealing the mind's remarkable plasticity, the substantial influence of culture on identity, and the malleability of what we consider to be 'hardwired' difference. This modern classic shows the surprising extent to which boys and girls, men and women are made - not born.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-02-03
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 269 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 368
  • Förlag: Icon Books
  • ISBN: 9781848312203
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2010
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Cordelia Fine is a Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of much-acclaimed A Mind of Its Own (Icon, 2006) and Testosterone Rex (Icon, 2017).

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We are all in [Fine's] debt. She has the expertise to check the research references cited by academic as well as popular books on the subject, and she has the clarity and wit to impart her findings to the lay reader. She exposes shockingly lightweight research that is taken seriously and nuanced research that is misreported.

Betyg & recensioner

5 recensioner, genomsnitt 3.4/5

  1. 1/5 Bo

    Tyvärr en besvikelse. Med främst anekdotbaserad bevisföring argumenteras för en socialkonstruktivistisk ontologi. Ingen större hänsyn tas till den enorma forskningsmängd som ifrågasätter hennes teser. Läs exempelvis Sex & Cognition av Doreen Kimura för en balans i diskursen.

  2. 5/5 Sara
  3. 5/5 Tove H
  4. 1/5 O.
  5. 5/5 AB

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