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Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences. Cordella Fine ReviewBelow is an excerpt from a forthcoming review in Skeptical Inquirer. I am a philosopher of science and former evolutionary biologist, and I highly recommend this book to anyone seriously interested in the biology and social science of gender.It is nowadays commonly accepted knowledge that there are profound innate differences between genders. I'm not talking about the obvious anatomical ones, but about the allegedly (radically) different ways in which male and female brains work. It seems that at every corner we hear statements to the effect that gender XX or XY is better or more capable or more attracted to a litany of tasks and behaviors, from spatial abilities to mathematics, from aptitude toward science to liking the color pink. When prominent figures -- like former Harvard President Larry Summers -- get in trouble for talking about behavioral gender differences as if they were established facts backed by the power of evolutionary and neuro-biology, a chorus of defenders rises up to decry political correctness and to present the Summers of the day as a valiant fighter for rationality in the face of relativism and demagoguery.
Not so fast, says Cordelia Fine in her Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference. Fine is an academic psychologist and freelance writer, and her book ought to be kept side by side with the likes of the (antithetical) The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, to provide a bit of balance to what has become common and yet largely unfounded knowledge about gender differences. Let us be clear at the outset that nobody is seriously suggesting that genetics and evolution have nothing to do with human behavior, including gendered differences. Rather, Fine's claim is that a lot is being taken for established these days on the basis of much too flimsy evidence -- and more importantly that the widening consensus among scientists and the general public about the innateness (and consequent inevitability) of gender differences has a measurable and pernicious effect on women.Nature and nurture surely interact in complex ways, particularly in an animal so behaviorally flexible as a human being. But the danger of "neurosexism" (and evolutionary sexism) is that public pronouncements by scientists far outpace the evidence, with the result of reinforcing stereotypes and negatively affecting millions of lives. Scientists have an ethical duty, as Wittgenstein put it in another context, to remember that whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences. Cordella Fine Overview

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