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

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ISBN-10: 0393068382

ISBN-13: 9780393068382

Edition: 2010

Authors: Cordelia Fine

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/30/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

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