THE BRILLIANT & HUGELY INFLUENTIAL BOOK BY THE WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOKS PRIZEFun droll yet deeply serious& New Scientist A brilliant feminist critic of the neurosciences Read her enjoy & learn& Hilary Rose THESA witty & meticulously researched expose of the sloppy studies that pass for scientific evidence in so many of today&s bestselling books on sex differences& Carol Tavris TLSGender inequalities are increasingly defended by citing hard-wired differences between the male & female brain That&s why we&re told there are so few women in science so few men in the laundry room -different brains are just suited to different things With sparkling wit & humour Cordelia Fine attacks this neurosexism& revealing the mind&s remarkable plasticity the substantial influence of culture on identityand the malleability of what we consider to behardwired& difference This modern classic shows the surprising extent to which boys & girls men & women are made
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