A review by sbelasco40
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

4.0

I listened to this on audiobook, and didn't love the narrator and also struggled to keep up at times, but overall really enjoyed what is essentially an extended argument for why our perceptions about gender are created largely by socialization and not somehow "hard-wired" by our biology. This is not a new argument, but Fine articulates it well with a keen critical analysis of a number of scientific and sociological studies, many of which claim to prove the opposite of the point she is trying to make. While it can feel discouraging to read endlessly about attempts to place people in iron-clad gender boxes throughout history, Fine's message is essentially a hopeful one: though people often try to find some kind of neurological and biological basis for gender, they are mostly unsuccessful. We are absolutely capable of achieving gender equality, even if in what she called this "half-changed world" we are far from living in it yet.