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Testosterone Rex
- Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds
- Narrated by: Willow Nash
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rewarded competitive men and caring women, these differences are supposedly recreated in each generation by sex hormones and male and female brains. Testosterone, so we're told, is the very essence of masculinity, and biological sex is a fundamental force in our development.
Not so, says psychologist Cordelia Fine, who shows, with wit and panache, that sex doesn't create male and female natures. Instead, sex, hormones, culture and evolution work together in ways that make past and present gender dynamics only a serving suggestion for the future - not a recipe.
Testosterone Rex brings together evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience and social history to move beyond old 'nature versus nurture' debates, and to explain why it's time to unmake the tyrannical myth of Testosterone Rex.
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- 02-01-22
An important book
Genes, gonads, genitalia and gender. Thank you Cordelia. And well read Willow. A very worthy investment of my time.
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- Cee Jay
- 11-09-22
men are not from Mars
does testosterone cause boys to like blue toys and girls to prefer pink ?
are boys & girls brains the same pre-puberty? if so, why does capitalism gender toys & clothes?
even though women also have testosterone?
how do rigid gender roles feed domestic abuse?
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- meera rajna
- 07-12-17
Informative and amusing
Well worth a read. Great insights to gender views in the modern world and science. Well written and amusing
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- B
- 09-09-24
Fascinating and brilliant
Absolutely fascinating book that manages to make clear points out of an area of science that has been muddied and skewed for decades. A total must read for parents, women, men, and everyone else. the only slight annoyance is the occasional mispronounced scientific word by the reader, but otherwise it's great 👍
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- JR
- 04-04-18
Interesting content but boring narration
Couldn't get into this as I found the narration very monotonous. A shame because I was really interested in the content.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-08-18
Learning we should teach in schools
Cordelia Fine 's work is so important. Instead of simplistic either/ors she gives us deep, nuanced knowledge about sex and gender that undoes all of our assumptions. And she makes it an easy read and funny too. Exceptional.
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- Gary Fry
- 29-04-21
Thought provoking and highly readable
Having read much evolutionary psychology down the years I'd almost got to the point where I believed the gender issue settled. But Fine has made me think again, largely by her fine grained descriptions of matters which turn out to be more complicated than broad generalisations. Her writing is sharp and witty. Highly recommended.
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- Sean B.
- 14-11-24
Intelligent and funny
Intelligent, thorough and humorously presented. I thoroughly enjoyed having my unconscious assumptions challenged. I’d highly recommend this any adamant male…or female.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-11-21
Interesting even if I have quibbles
I think that there are some strong points in the book highlighting research that is done in not the best way. My biggest issue is that while some studies could be discounted as "bad" research, the same could be said for work that was cited in this book to bolster her point.
I laughed out loud at the part which discussed publication bias only to then discuss stereotype threat which also has publication bias.
Ultimately I think the point of the book is that human behaviour is complicated and we should have a more nuanced view. Which is perfectly agreeable to me.
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- 29-05-18
Funny and informative
This was a really easy to follow, well researched romp through all the reasons that gender determinism is so deeply flawed
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