Cordelia Fine

This was one of the most interesting books I have ever read. Fine masterfully challenges common notions of gender differences and highlights how unbelievable socially constructed ideas of gender are. I feel I will never look at the world the same way after reading this book and seeing just how much even implicit behaviors and attitudes affect differences in gender and the formation of gender identity. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in gender issues or who is convinced that there are more inherent differences than similarities between males and females.… (more)

This is a difficult book for a layman to review: the arguments are persuasive, but I don't know what is left out. She argues, for example, that there is no good evidence for men having higher reproductive variance than women, but check out this empirical data from human societies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3096780/table/tbl1/?report=objecton... Higher male variance looks to be normal. So enjoy this book, but with caution.… (more)