Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

ISBN-13: 9780393340242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str.

Cordelia Fine

Opis

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 Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that men's and women's brains are intrinsically different--a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor, all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society.

O autorze

Cordelia Fine hat Experimentelle Psychologie an der Oxford University und Kriminologie an der Cambridge University studiert. Ihren Doktor in Psychologie (Kognitive Neurowissenschaften) machte sie am University College London. Zwischen 2002 und 2011 forschte und lehrte sie an der Monash University, der Australian National University und der Macquarie University in Australien. Zur Zeit ist sie ARC Future Fellow in Psychological Sciences und Assistenzprofessorin an der Melbourne Business School der University of Melbourne.