In her new book, Delusions of Gender, she takes aim at the idea that male brains and female brains are wired differently, leading men and women to act in a manner consistent with decades-old gender stereotypes.

informative and often surprising study.- Kirkus Reviews Cordelia Fine has a first-rate intellect and writing talent to burn. Weaving together anecdotes, dense research and quotes from numerous experts, she offers a well-balanced testament to the many ways in which cultural rules inform behaviors often mistaken as organic to our brains, as opposed to learned. Review Quotes effectively blows the lid off of old tropes. Passionately argued and unfailingly astute, Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that mens and womens brains are intrinsically different-a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor, all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society. Instead of a male brain and a female brain, Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between mens and womens behavior. Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is.-The New York Times Book Synopsis Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between mens and womens brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as mens brains arent wired for empathy and womens brains arent made to fix cars. About the Book sharp tongue is tempered with humor.

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine