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Delusions of Gender How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

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ISBN-10: 0393340244

ISBN-13: 9780393340242

Edition: N/A

Authors: Cordelia Fine

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List price: $16.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660

Cordelia Fine , the author of A Mind of Its Own and Delusions of Gender , is a writer and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Introduction
"Half-Changed World," Half-Changed Minds
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
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 ... or a Monkey?
Sex and Premature Speculation
What Does It All Mean, Anyway?
Brain Scams
The "Seductive Allure" of Neuroscience
Unraveling Hardwiring
Recycling Gender
Preconceptions and Postconceptions
Parenting with a Half-Changed Mind
"Gender Detectives"
Gender Education
The Self-Socializing Child
Epilogue: And S-t-r-e-t-c-h!
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Notes
Bibliography
Index