5/18/2023 0 Comments Cordelia fine neurosexismAfter all, animals are hardly egalitarian or fair. Darwins idea can be satisfying to those who are happy to view humans as part of the natural world, as just another branch on the phylogenetic bush. The discovery of natural selection and its role in the evolution not just of organisms but also their behavior is all well and good until you get to human beings. It is not hard to see how the study of sex differences came to be politically charged. In her book, Delusions of Gender, academic psychologist Cordelia Fine talks an interactionist game but her heart belongs to cultural determinism. Fearing that any evidence for a biological basis for sex differences in behavior would have deleterious effects on womens rights, some feminist scientists may lean towards a cultural determinism on the theory that society can be changed more easily than the genes. But, when it comes to gender, feminist values can be a powerful influence on the side of nurture. Informed scientific discussion currently is all about interaction: interaction of genes with environment, of biology with culture. One had hoped that, by now, debates about nature versus nurture had run their course. Published online: 10 January 2012# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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