![]() "Fine eviscerates both the neuroscientists who claim to have found the answers and the popularisers who take their findings and run with them", says Katherine Bouton, deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine.īut other experts passionately disagree. "These cultural lores, which in popular hands can become nothing short of monstrous fiction, are standing in the way of greater sex equality – just as measures of skull volume, brain weight and neuron delicacy did in the past".įine's book has been praised by academics in Newsweek, USA Today and New Scientist. ![]() "Avid readers of popular science books and articles about gender may well have formed the impression that science has shown that the path to a male or a female brain is set in utero, and that these differently structured brains create essentially different minds," says Fine, whose book is published in the UK this week. ![]() Dr Cordelia Fine, author of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference, says there is no convincing evidence that our brains are hardwired according to gender, and no such thing as "biological destiny". ![]()
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