A review by jackieroot
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

4.0

In this accessible, entertaining, and well-researched book, Cordelia Fine synthesizes and critiques decades of research from a variety of scientific fields regarding gender and the supposed differences between men and women. As a woman, a feminist, an educator, and advocate for LGBT rights, I was heartened by Fine's unapologetic dismantling of popular theories of the innate differences between the sexes. Although Fine is unable to offer any concrete solution to the myriad ways in which we as individuals and a society gender children from birth, she does offer a glimmer of hope that once we finally accept that our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference, and that we have the power to change that "hardwiring," the inequality of access created by gender inequality and stereotype will fade.