Delusions of Gender : How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
ISBN: 9780393340242 | 0393340244
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 8/17/2011
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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 tells a tale of two brains, and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo. W... MORE
| Introduction | p. xv |
| "Half-Changed World," Half-Changed Minds | |
| We Think, Therefore You Are | p. 3 |
| Why You Should Cover Your Head with a Paper Bag if You Have a Secret You Don't Want Your Wife to Find Out | p. 14 |
| "Backwards and in High Heels" | p. 27 |
| I Don't Belong Here | p. 40 |
| The Glass Workplace | p. 54 |
| XX-clusion and xxx-clusion | p. 67 |
| Gender E... MORE | p. 78 |
| Gender Equality 2.0? | p. 90 |
| Neurosexism | |
| The "Fetal Fork" | p. 99 |
| In "the Darkness of the Womb" (and the First Few Hours in the Light) | p. 107 |
| The Brain of a Boy in the Body of a Girl ... or a Monkey? | p. 118 |
| Sex and Premature Speculation | p. 131 |
| What Does It All Mean, Anyway? | p. 141 |
| Brain Scams | p. 155 |
| The "Seductive Allure" of Neuroscience | p. 168 |
| Unraveling Hardwiring | p. 176 |
| Recycling Gender | |
| Preconceptions and Postconceptions | p. 189 |
| Parenting with a Half-Changed Mind | p. 197 |
| "Gender Detectives" | p. 207 |
| Gender Education | p. 214 |
| The Self-Socializing Child | p. 226 |
| Epilogue: And S-t-r-e-t-c-h! | p. 233 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 241 |
| Author's Note | p. 243 |
| Notes | p. 245 |
| Bibliography | p. 289 |
| Index | p. 329 |
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Cordella Fine is a senior research associate at the Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics at Macquarie University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne's Department of Psychology. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.
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