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Brain Storm The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010. 408 pp. $35, £25.95, €31.50. ISBN 9780674057302.
Delusions of Gender How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine Norton, New York, 2010. 368 pp. $25.95, C$32.50. ISBN 9780393068382.
A book review in today’s issue of Science tackles two recent books that combat the use of neuroscience to support restrictive sexist gender roles. Both of the books get a good review, so check them out.
There’s another interesting review focusing on Fine’s “Delusions of Gender”. You can find it at PLoS Biology: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001005