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Testosterone Rex Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds

Name: Testosterone Rex
Author: Cordelia Fine

Auteur: Cordelia Fine

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Cordelia Fine

Engels
Paperback
9781785783180
08 februari 2018
272 pagina's

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Cordelia Fine

"Cordelia Fine is a Canadian-born British philosopher, psychologist and writer. She is a Full Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Fine has written three popular science books on the topics of social cognition, neuroscience, and the popular myths of sex differences. Her latest book Testosterone Rex won the Royal Society Science Book Prize, 2017. She has authored several academic book chapters and numerous academic publications. Fine is also noted for coining the term 'neurosexism'.

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WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What the judges said: 'Every man and woman should read this book on gender bias ... an important, yet wickedly witty, book.' 'Fine's entertaining and thoughtful book is a valuable addition to the discussion about gender.' Ian Critchley, Sunday Times 'In addition to being hopeful, Fine is also angry. We should all be angry. Testosterone Rex is a debunking rumble that ought to inspire a roar.' Guardian 'A densely packed, spirited book, with an unusual combination of academic rigour and readability ... The expression essential reading for everyone is usually untrue as well as a cliche, but if there were a book deserving of that description this might just be it.' Antonia Macaro, Financial Times Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rewarded competitive men and caring women, these differences are supposedly re-created in each generation by sex hormones and male and female brains. Testosterone, so we're told, is the very essence of masculinity, and biological sex is a fundamental force in our development. Not so, says psychologist Cordelia Fine, who shows, with wit and panache, that sex doesn't create male and female natures. Instead, sex, hormones, culture and evolution work together in ways that make past and present gender dynamics only a serving suggestion for the future - not a recipe. Testosterone Rex brings together evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience and social history to move beyond old 'nature versus nurture' debates, and to explain why it's time to unmake the tyrannical myth of Testosterone Rex. For fans of Fine - whose Delusions of Gender 'could have far-reaching consequences as significant as The Female Eunuch' (Viv Groskop, Guardian) - and thousands of new readers, this is an upbeat, timely and important contribution to the debate about gender in society.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 08 februari 2018
Aantal pagina's: 272
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Hoofdauteur: Cordelia Fine
Hoofduitgeverij: Icon Books

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Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 128 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm
Verpakking lengte: 196 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 396 g
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EAN: 9781785783180

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Wetenschap & Natuur

Gezin & Relaties

Seks & Seksualiteit

Sociale groepen

Sociologie

Biologie

Genderstudies

Sociale theorie

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Taal: Engels
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Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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