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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.Another great read is Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine.http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-Society-Neurosexism-D...
⬐ steveklabnikSee this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845263 for a criticism of Fine and "Delusions of Gender."
Assuming no difference isn't Politically Correct (by which I take it you mean a social lie that nobody actually believes). Really, there are no differences (cf Delusions of Gender http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-Society-Neurosexism-D...). There is no difference between a woman's brain and a man's. Give two brain scans (fMRIs/MEGs/EEGs etc) to a neuroscientist and they cannot tell which one belongs to which gender.And people do have qualms saying women are better at empathy. "Women's strengths" justifies sexism and boxing women into specific roles. In the 50's it was keeping women in the kitchen, "because they were naturally better at it and want to do it", now it's empathy and relationships which justifies them having to raise children and doing emotional labor.
Regardless, the article is bad, it makes a false dichotomy. First, Putnam should increase participation in girls, then it can remove the special women's prize.
⬐ xyzzyzThere is no difference between a woman's brain and a man's. Give two brain scans (fMRIs/MEGs/EEGs etc) to a neuroscientist and they cannot tell which one belongs to which gender.This claim sounded fishy enough to me to warrant more research for sources, and the first Google result was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_differences It does seem to clearly contradict your claim. Further research directed me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_dimorphic_nucleus http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/6/490.abstract Generally, searching for "sexual dimorphism human brain" brings up a lot of results. It seems that you should update your data.
I've read through "The Delusion of Gender"- http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-Society-Neurosexism-D..., where an Oxford, Cambridge, and UCL-educated Doctor of Psychology wrecks havok through Simon Baron-Cohen and his ilk's research.It's a little boring, but systematic.
⬐ nailerI'd rather trust a medical doctor to assess medical topics than a psychologist.And exactly what 'nurture' are in-utero babies - the subject of the testosterone / interest tests - subjected to anyway?
You've read the book. Sum it up for us.
Anyone interested in gender studies and the current understanding of gender ought to read "Delusions of Gender" by Cordelia Fine. It is a fantastically interesting book.http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-Society-Neurosexism-D...