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A brilliantly researched and wickedly funny rebuttal of the pseudoscientific claim that men are from mars and women are from venus. How our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, the author criticizes claims about innate biological differences between men and womens minds as being faulty and exaggerated and considers how cultural and societal beliefs contribute to sex differences. Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, delusions of gender provides us with a muchneeded corrective to the belief that mens and womens brains are intrinsically differenta belief that, as fine shows with insight and humor, all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society. The new york times, delusions of gender, how our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference, cordelia fine, 9780393340242. Delusions of gender is an enjoyably acerbic and eloquent takedown of evolutionary psychologists and their neuroscientist collaboratorsthose practitioners of bad science, whose work is often repeated uncritically in tabloid newspapers or used to shape educational curricula. Cordelia fine drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, cordelia fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between mens and womens brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as. Cordelia fine 2010 article pdf available september 2011 with 1,240 reads. This acclaimed book by cordelia fine is available at. Two books came out this year 2010 which, in the longterm, could change how we view gender for ever.