Highly recommended: Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine, a feminist neuroscientist who punctures innatist myths about gender difference. Buy copies for your friends who think “Science!” has shown that men and women are genetically programmed for differences in blah blah blah.
The title is a nod to Anne Fausto-Sterling’s earlier Myths Of Gender: Biological Theories About Women And Men, which I also highly recommend – but Fine’s book is not only more up-to-date, but also more accessible and reader-friendly; so it makes a better introduction for the feminist-resistant.
Huh? By “blah blah blah” do you mean something like the ability to have children?
There may be differences between the sexes that you could point to as a counter argument against the tone of Roderick’s “blah blah blah”, but since the context here seems to be neurological differences, the pregnancy example seems a bit off point.
By “blah blah blah” do you mean something like the ability to have children?
Gosh yes, that’s the most plausible possible reading of what I said.
Hello.
Do you believe there are no neurologic differences between men and women?
Do you believe that the roles of different hormones/hormone levels have no influence on behavior bewteen the sexes?
Do you deny the norwegian paradox ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LRdW8xw70
Thank you.
Do you believe there are no neurologic differences between men and women?
No significant ones.
Do you believe that the roles of different hormones/hormone levels have no influence on behavior bewteen the sexes?
Far less than traditionally believed. Read Fine & Fausto-Sterling on hormones.
Do you deny the norwegian paradox ?
Huh?
Readers might be interested in this interview of Cordelia Fine and Rebecca Jordan-Young on an episode of the Australian radio show All in the Mind.
What about transsexuals?
What about them?