‘A lively and worrying work which argues that the scientific community has often sabotaged the fight for gender equality’

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Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender is reviewed on Irish politics website Politico.ie by Ed O’Hare.

‘Fine’s case is a damning one,’ he says. ‘For decades it has been assumed that our gender is determined by our biology and that the brain is literally hardwired from birth to be male or female. Fine argues that today this almost universally held theory rests on the same amount of hard fact that has always supported it: none at all. However, the acceptance of this theory has had a great impact on every sphere of life, from the social and commercial to the medical and educational.’

Read the full piece here and more about the book here.