[ID: A bright yellow book cover with two silhouettes from the shoulders up. One is pink and has a me

[ID: A bright yellow book cover with two silhouettes from the shoulders up. One is pink and has a messy bun and the other is blue with short hair. The area that intersects is a fark blue. Black writing under the illustration says: Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference. Cordelia Fine” and small writing at the top says: “”[Fine’s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor and linguistic playfulness…Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is.” - New York Times” End ID]So I read Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine a few months ago, so I’m not able to remember all the details, but I really enjoyed it! The book is pretty much just her going through and debunking a bunch of theories/dumb ways people try and prove gender difference in the brain. She uses a lot of sources (there are so many pages of citations at the end) and even goes through and debunks the sources that the authors of the dumb theories use which is honestly pretty hilarious. I love how thorough she is because it makes it not too difficult to follow along with all the vocab.Her conclusions were basically, that gender permeates so much of culture, that it’s hard to create scientific studies that find gender difference, because the researchers always have some sort of bias. Which means for now, gender in the brain is scientifically very wibbly-wobbly which I think is cool. The book is very binary, but I think that’s the nature of trying to show that gender prejudice exists in science.  -- source link

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