or a monkey? Sex and premature speculation What does it all mean, anyway? Brain scams The 'seductive allure' of neuroscience Unraveling hardwiring - Recycling gender.

The 'fetal fork' In 'the darkness of the womb' (and the first few hours in the light) The brain of a boy in the body of a girl. We think, therefore you are Why you should cover your head with a paper bag if you have a secret you don't want your wife to find out 'Backwards and in high heels' I don't belong here The glass workplace XX-clusion and XXX-clusion Gender equality begins (or ends) at home Gender equality 2.0? - Neurosexism. This startling, original and witty book shows the surprising extent to which boys and girls, men and women are made, not born.'Half-changed world,' half-changed minds. Cordelia Fine reveals the mind's remarkable plasticity, shows the substantial influence of culture on identity, and, ultimately, exposes just how much of what we consider 'hardwired' is actually malleable. Drawing on the latest research in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social psychology, DELUSIONS OF GENDER rebuts these claims, showing how old myths, dressed up in new scientific finery, help perpetuate the status quo. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they say, it's our brains. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain.

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