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

by Cordelia Fine

Book Overview

It's the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks--we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it. And everywhere we hear about vitally important "hardwired" differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience that we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and sometimes even scientific journals increasingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393340244
• ISBN13: 9780393340242
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"