Testosterone Rex, Cordelia Fine
Testosterone Rex, Cordelia Fine
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Testosterone Rex
Myths of Sex, Science, and Society

Author: Cordelia Fine

Narrator: Cat Gould

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2017

Synopsis

Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in our development. According to this familiar story, differences between the sexes are shaped by past evolutionary pressures—women are more cautious and parenting-focused, men seek status to attract more mates—re-created in each generation by sex hormones and male and female brains. This, in turn, is the basis of supposedly entrenched inequalities in our modern societies. But in this entertaining and rigorous exploration of the latest research, Cordelia Fine draws on evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, and philosophy to reveal a much more dynamic situation. Testosterone, for instance, is not the potent hormonal essence of masculinity, and received wisdoms about differences between the sexes, from toy preferences to financial risk taking, are turned on their heads. Moving beyond the old "nature" versus "nurture" debates, Testosterone Rex reinvigorates hope and determination for a more equal future.

About Cordelia Fine

Cordelia Fine, associate professor of Organization Psychology at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, is the author of the much-acclaimed Delusions of Gender and A Mind of Its Own. She lives in Victoria, Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on June 28, 2019

Q: ... we may be shortly waving farewell to the economics-inspired reproductive love story in which female Fertility Value meets male Resource Value, settles down, and maximizes reproductive success. (c) A lot of interesting research on gender evolution, roles, specters, biology, marketing, risks and......more

Goodreads review by Prerna on September 07, 2020

Despite all the advances made in developmental biology, as a society we still widely believe that men and women are complementary to each other. This belief is so ingrained into our society so as to give rise to popular slogans that are irrationally used as excuses for misbehaviour and sexual stereo......more

Goodreads review by Kaisha on April 21, 2017

This is a much-needed review of the outdated scientific interpretations of the role of testosterone on behavior. From the earliest experiments, Fine shows how value-laden and culturally reinforcing many of these "scientific" experiments are. To sum up a wonderfully entertaining and thorough investig......more

Goodreads review by Todd on August 14, 2017

Male and Female Peacocks As everyone knows by now human behavior is a combination of nature and nurture. However, when it comes to the differences in behaviors between the sexes, Cordelia Fine (an academic psychologist and writer) believes nature has nothing to with it. She makes her argument as to w......more

Goodreads review by Peter on January 12, 2018

Cordelia Fine has appeared somewhat controversial in a controversy-cluttered area, to the extent that I had avoided her work, notwithstanding it being in and around a topic of great interest, and it wasn't until I read something about her and this book in a kind of interview/review that I decided to......more

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