Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men
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I read the book a few years ago and have ever since been helped along the way as I wind myself down the path of endless "sex difference" books. I read it before I read "Brain Sex" so I wasn't at all able to be programmed into a...
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I read the book a few years ago and have ever since been helped along the way as I wind myself down the path of endless "sex difference" books. I read it before I read "Brain Sex" so I wasn't at all able to be programmed into a set of beliefs so common these days. Gender studies are flawed,they involve the subjectivity of the "researcher" and bias.If the "researcher finds a woman to have a road map and blueprints in her mind,she's said to have been exposed to male hormones,as though a woman cannot have these gifts without being somehow a "misfit" according to most "researchers".And what of the man who has great writing and memory but poor spatial and math ability? He is neating fitted into a catagory of male who was exposed to female hormones. Anyway the writer debunks these myths with straightforward writing and objective conclusions to confusing answers other writers come up with to explain a man with a female brain and a woman with a male brain. The "researchers" have assigned a very narrow set of abilities to males and females,and they use the hormone theory to perperuate it. Hormones are cousins,and esrtogen,androgens,testostrone,progestrone are found in both sexes and in individual amounts.This in turn gives little truth to the notion of hormones playing a part in male or female brain wiring. Brains are not fixed,a spatial brain can be in a female and a verbal in a male. Read the book and find out how subjective and bias gender research actually is. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)
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